Stephen Flatow is an American lawyer When justice for terror victims is hostage to politics notable for initiating a series of lawsuits targeting the Islamic Republic of Iran and several international banks that processed transactions on Iran's behalf.
Flatow is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was killed in a suicide bombing attack on a bus carried out by terrorists belonging to the Islamic Jihad Movement group near Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip in 1995. After his daughter's death, Flatow commenced a series of lawsuits against the government of Iran. An amendment to the US Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, which enabled Flatow to successfully sue Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism is named after him ("The Flatow Amendment").Finding Justice for Victims of State-Sponsored Terrorism
Beginning in 2006, he has helped the United States government identify parties illegally processing financial transactions for Iran.
A Father's Story Flatow published a 2018 memoir, A Father’s Story: My Fight for Justice Against Iranian Terror, about his response to the murder of his daughter.
References
External links FLATOW v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN