A U.S. federal judge will soon rule on whether frozen Iranian assets in the United States should be liquidated and turned over to the family of an American Jewish student killed in a terrorist bombing in the Gaza Strip. U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth earlier this week granted a request by lawyers for Stephen Flatow, whose 20-year-old daughter, Alisa, was killed by terrorists in 1995, to serve Iran notice to appear in court. But he stayed that order when the Clinton administration objected.
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