On February 13, 2019, the International Court of Justice ruled [3] in Certain Iranian Assets (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America) that it has jurisdiction to hear part of Iran’s case against the United States and that the application is admissible. The case was initiated after the U.S. Supreme Court decision [4] Bank Markazi v. Peterson, which led to the seizure of around $1.75 billion in assets from the Iranian national bank under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act’s terrorism exception in order to compensate victims of a 1983 bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, that the U.S. blames on Tehran. Iran invoked the Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations, and Consular Rights as the basis for the Court’s jurisdiction and also argued that the United States violated the international law of state immunity from jurisdiction and execution. The Court accepted jurisdiction, allowing the case to move forward, but also upheld one of the U.S.’s five objections that the court does not have jurisdiction over Iran’s claims concerning sovereign immunities.