Opening arguments were expected Monday in a case involving art and Iran’s support of a terrorist attack in Israel. Lawyers for victims of the 1997 attack want the U.S. court to force the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute to sell Persian antiquities to help raise some of the money for a $423.5 million damages judgment made in 2003 against Iran for backing Hamas, which was behind the attack.
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