Survivors of Jerusalem terror attack, families of Beirut terror victims seek to collect from Iranian relics

A group of survivors of a 1997 Jerusalem bombing and the families of people murdered in the 1983 bombing of a Marine barracks in Beirut are both seeking to collect default judgments against the government of Iran from the Persepolis tablets - ancient relics from Persian society that have been on long-term loan to a Chicago museum. The twin lawsuits have what we call the yfei ha'nefesh (cultural