On 20 April 2016 the Supreme Court of the United States decided in "Bank Markazi v. Peterson" that almost $2 billion of Iranian frozen assets must be given to families of people killed in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings. The court held Iran responsible for the incident. Iranian foreign minister Zarif called the ruling "highway robbery", excoriating the court for a previous ruling holding Iran responsible for &lt;a href="9/11"&gt;9/11&lt;/a&gt; and adding that it is "the Supreme Court of the United States, not the Supreme Court of the world. We're not under its jurisdiction, nor is our money."