Iran Puts War Losses at $270 Billion Demands Reparations from Gulf Countries

Fatemeh Mohajerani, the government spokesperson, has estimated the damages resulting from U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran at “currently around $270 billion.”

Mohajerani stated that this figure represents the total of both direct and indirect damages.

In an interview with Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency, she said: “One of the issues our negotiating team is pursuing and which was also followed up during the Islamabad talks is the matter of war reparations.” The payment of war reparations was one of Iran’s ten conditions in the negotiations with the United States in Islamabad.

Simultaneously, Amir-Saeid Iravani, Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations, has submitted a letter addressed to Secretary-General António Guterres, demanding compensation from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait.

In the letter, the Iranian ambassador further claimed:

“Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, and Jordan must cease their internationally wrongful acts, including allowing the use of their territories by aggressors and, in some cases, participating in the commission of illegal armed attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran, in violation of General Assembly Resolution 3314 (XXIX) dated December 14, 1974.”

Under this resolution, aggression is defined as “the use of armed force by a State against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of another State.”

Furthermore, Article 3 of the same resolution adds:

“The action of a State in allowing its territory, which it has placed at the disposal of another State, to be used by that other State for perpetrating an act of aggression against a third State” is itself considered an act of aggression.