Kristen Breitweiser

I would agree with that.

But nevertheless, Iran doesn't show up in court and you can get a default judgment.

A convenient narrative.

I just want to say that.

Listen, you know, pragmatically speaking, when you're a widow and it's the only judgment you can get.

I get it.

No.

Not at all.

I wanted to go after the US government and their failures because I didn't look to Iran or Saudi Arabia or any other foreign government to protect my husband and my family on the morning of September 11th.

I looked to the United States government because I'm an American citizen and the attacks happened here.

So at any rate, we were able to get these Iran judgments, I think at this point, like 20,000 people, that's including the decedent's families, the widows and the kids, and the decedent's siblings, parents, and then all of the inhalation injury people at Ground Zero who breathed the bad air, they're also holding Iran accountable.

That ultimately will be about 70,000 people seeking to be compensated in this government fund.

Well, the problem with the government fund is that compensating 9-11 victims gets in the way of the other victims that want to be compensated.

And so back in 2008, and then a little bit before that in some other legislation, things were rewritten for American military to be able to sue the enemy.

So you have victims from the embassy bombings in the late 80s

You have Iran hostages that aren't allowed to have judgments because a part of the Alger Accords was that they weren't allowed to sue Iran, but they're given just a flat number that they're allowed to be paid in this government fund.

They're a victim of state-sponsored terrorism, the Iran hostages.

The embassy bombing in Beirut victims and then the Khobar Tower victims.

That was a bombing in Saudi Arabia.

And then you have the U.S.