In July 2013, Forrest ordered the release of $1.75 billion in foreign assets held by Iran’s central bank in a New York Citibank account to create a fund for families of the victims of the 1983 bombing of a U.S. Marines compound in Beirut, Lebanon. Forrest’s ruling in "Peterson v. Iran" was upheld in 2016, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-2 in "Bank Markazi v. Peterson" that the families should be allowed to collect the Iranian funds.