Federal government to seize NYC skyscraper tied to Iran
Source: USA Today
It was once known as the Piaget Building because the Swiss jeweler used to have offices in the skyscraper near Rockefeller Center.
In the near future, it will be known as property of the federal government.
U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest has granted a summary judgment that clears the way for the government to seize the 36-story office building owned by a corporation and foundation with ties to the Iranian government. The move is the latest chapter in a short but storied history that includes design by John Carl Warnecke, the same architect who drew up the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, Logan International Airport in Boston and the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.
A statement by the U.S. Justice Department says the ruling "paves the way for the largest-ever terrorism-related forfeiture."
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/17/fifth-avenue-skyscraper-iran-government-seizure/2829517/
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> Iran is watching closely - USA sanctioned the shit out of Iraq,
> Iraq got rid of whatever weapons were upsetting the USA,
> USA INVADED AND SLAUGHTERED THEM ANYHOW!!
The fact that most of the US public has an attention-span of a drunken gnat
does not imply that people elsewhere in the world (especially those who have
been previously designated members of the fictional "Axis of Evil"
have got
the same failing.
The embassy was designed in 1948 by the architect Ides van der Gracht. It was a long, low two-story brick building, similar to American high schools built in the 1930s and 1940s. For this reason, the building was nicknamed "Henderson High" by the embassy staff, referring to Loy W. Henderson, who became America's ambassador to Iran just after construction was completed in 1951.[1]
The US diplomatic mission has been defunct since the Iran hostage crisis of 1979. Since then, the United States government has been represented in Iran by the United States Interests Section of the Embassy of Switzerland in Tehran. The name currently given to the compound by many Iranians is variously translated as "espionage den," "den of espionage", and "nest of spies".[2]
After the fall of the embassy, Revolutionary Guard used it as a training center. The brick walls that form the perimeter (the embassy grounds are the size of a city block) feature a number of anti-American murals commissioned by the government of Iran.[citation needed] The site has also housed a bookstore and a museum (both are closed to foreigners and the general Iranian public, though exceptions do exist). The Great Seal of the United States is badly damaged but still visible at the entryway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_States,_Tehran
You just hung it all out there, didn't ya? So smug! So wrong!
And what you're trying to do is goad and bait by making false and phony inferences about me, on the lines of "When did you stop beating your children?"
It's very uncivil conduct. It's rude and it is disruptive, and it makes DU suck.
And a great big Alla'e shoma khube to you, too, there Skippy....you'll have to work a little bit harder to get a rise out of me with those kinds of amateurish and obvious tactics.
