The US Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s ruling that $2.65 billion in frozen Iranian assets be turned over to families of victims of Iranian-orchestrated terror including the bombing of the Marines’ barracks in Beirut in 1983 and Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996. The matter became an important separation of powers case as the Iranian banks argued that by passing a law in 2012 requiring the frozen assets be transferred to the plaintiffs in a 2007 case who were awarded that amount, Congress usurped judicial powers. Chief Justice Roberts, a conservative, dissented to the majority (6 – 2) opinion written by liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, saying that Congress “was commandeering the courts to make a political decision look like a judicial one.” The Obama administration – which supported the position of the families of victims — has not weighed-in on what the Iranians will make of the decision in light of the nuclear agreement with the Western powers.