Iran asks U.N. chief to intervene with U.S. after court ruling

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon shakes hands with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at U.N. headquarters in New York, September 18, 2014. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran asked U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday to convince the United States to stop violating state immunity after the top U.S. court ruled that $2 billion (1.36 billion pounds) in frozen Iranian assets must be paid to American victims of attacks blamed on Tehran.

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote to Ban a week after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, calling on the Secretary-General to use his "good offices in order to induce the U.S. Government to adhere to its international obligations."