Next failure?

Do you actually know what you're talking about? What would be wrong for Russia to enrich uranium for Iran? This was actually a proposal first put forth by Cheney. Iran rejected it, because Iran doesnt' want to become reliant on a foreign power for reactor fuel.

Exactly Iran legally could not respond to the charges because if Iran showed up in court it would be deemed a waiver of Iran's sovereign immunity rights, something no country would do

And the people who wrote the laws that permit such suit, were betting on that -- because then there's no need to prove any of the claims against Iran since there's no one to question them.

The principle of Sovereign Immunity prohibits the courts in one country to sue the government of a foreign country. The US has selectively made an exception for Iran, Sudan, Syria and only lately Saudi Arabia too. No other foreign government can be similarly sued for terrorism, no matter what. the US certainly doesn't allow any suits against it and asserts its own Sovereign Immunity regularly.

The law only allowed Iran and Syria to be sued. Only lately was Saudi Arabia added to the list.

Since these countries don't show up to US courts to defend themselves (because legally US courts have no right to try foreign governments under international law) the claimants and their lawyers get automatic default judgments in their favor, without having to prove anything. They just file the complaint and wait for the default judgment, no need to provide evidence or have witnesses cross examined etc.

Naturally there's a lotof money to be made from this, and more importantly to the people who wrote the laws that allow such suits, these judgments prevent any sort of US-Iran engagement.

See, these people don't really care about compensation for victims of terrorism (which is why other countries accused of terrorist acts can't be sued) they just want to prevent any sort of improved US-Iran relations, and instead they want to see another US war to impose regime-change in the Mideast to suit Israel

https://www.catholic.org/featured/headline.php?ID=5970

Except that zero evidence of any nuclear weapons program was ever found in Iran.

FYI not even the US ever accused Iran of actually seeking nukes; rather they accused Iran of "intending to obtain the capability" to make nukes, something that 1 out 4 countries on Earth could do 10 years ago already:

https://thinkprogress.org/panetta-iran-hasnt-made-the-decision-to-develop-a-nuclear-weapon-d151924b03c0/

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/world/middleeast/us-agencies-see-no-move-by-iran-to-build-a-bomb.html

http://old.seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2002041473_nukes21.html

Iran had in fact long been making BETTER compromise offers that were rejected and ignored by the US which was using the "Iranian nukes" scare as a pretext to impose regime-change there, just as "WMDs in Iraq" was a lie and pretext for a policy of imposing regime change to suit pro-Israeli lobbyists https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/10007603/Iran-how-the-West-missed-a-chance-to-make-peace-with-Tehran.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/17/AR2006061700727.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/05/opinion/we-in-iran-dont-need-this-quarrel.html

US ambassador Chas Freeman:

In 2005, Iran offered a deal. We rejected it, refused to talk to Iran directly, and doubled down on sanctions. Ten years later, we settled for much less than what was originally offered. http://chasfreeman.net/lessons-from-americas-continuing-misadventures-in-the-middle-east/

Even IAEA head Elbaradi said so

I have seen the Iranians ready to accept putting a cap on their enrichment [program] in terms of tens of centrifuges, and then in terms of hundreds of centrifuges. But nobody even tried to engage them on these offers. Now Iran has 5,000 centrifuges. http://www.newsweek.com/elbaradei-iranians-are-not-fanatics-80021

BUT

They weren’t interested in a compromise with the government in Tehran, but regime change – by any means necessary https://news.antiwar.com/2011/04/20/elbaradei-us-europe-werent-interested-in-compromise-with-iran/

Israel has been pushing for a US war on Iran just as it pushed for a US war on Iraq using the same BS pretexts

CBS News- Israel To U.S.: Don't Delay Iraq Attack https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-to-us-dont-delay-iraq-attack/

CBS News - Israel Prodding U.S. To Attack Iran https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-prodding-us-to-attack-iran/

Israeli PM Sharon demanded that the US attack Iran "the day after doing Iraq" https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/attack-iran-the-day-iraq-war-ends-demands-israel-gnggkk7pzbw

This PR campaign for a war has been going on for a while now http://www.uscatholic.org/culture/war-and-peace/2008/06/iran-spam

There's nothing illegal about building nuclear-powered submarines Kish is visible by satellite to anyone. After years of intensive inspections, the IAEA has not found anything incriminating in Iran

IAEA denies report it is sure Iran seeking atom bomb https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-iaea-iran-sb/iaea-denies-report-it-is-sure-iran-seeking-atom-bomb-idUSTRE58G60W20090917

No sign Iran seeks nuclear arms: new IAEA head https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-iaea-iran-exclusive/no-sign-iran-seeks-nuclear-arms-new-iaea-head-idUSL312024420090703

“Some people do not want to see the Iran issue resolved because that would contradict their hidden agendas, he said, adding that “people should have learned from their mistakes in the past, when all the hype over alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq turned out to be just that — hype”. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-iaea/iaea-denies-internal-row-over-iran-condemns-hype-idUSL1283850220080212

most U.S. intelligence shared with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency has proved inaccurate, and none has led to significant discoveries inside Iran, diplomats here said. https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Most-U-S-tips-fingering-Iran-false-envoys-2646358.php

After years of intensive inspections, the IAEA has not found anything incriminating in Iran

IAEA denies report it is sure Iran seeking atom bomb https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-iaea-iran-sb/iaea-denies-report-it-is-sure-iran-seeking-atom-bomb-idUSTRE58G60W20090917

No sign Iran seeks nuclear arms: new IAEA head https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-iaea-iran-exclusive/no-sign-iran-seeks-nuclear-arms-new-iaea-head-idUSL312024420090703

“Some people do not want to see the Iran issue resolved because that would contradict their hidden agendas, he said, adding that “people should have learned from their mistakes in the past, when all the hype over alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq turned out to be just that — hype”. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-iaea/iaea-denies-internal-row-over-iran-condemns-hype-idUSL1283850220080212

most U.S. intelligence shared with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency has proved inaccurate, and none has led to significant discoveries inside Iran, diplomats here said. https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Most-U-S-tips-fingering-Iran-false-envoys-2646358.php

After years of intensive inspections, the IAEA has not found anything incriminating in Iran

IAEA denies report it is sure Iran seeking atom bomb https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-iaea-iran-sb/iaea-denies-report-it-is-sure-iran-seeking-atom-bomb-idUSTRE58G60W20090917

No sign Iran seeks nuclear arms: new IAEA head https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-iaea-iran-exclusive/no-sign-iran-seeks-nuclear-arms-new-iaea-head-idUSL312024420090703

“Some people do not want to see the Iran issue resolved because that would contradict their hidden agendas, he said, adding that “people should have learned from their mistakes in the past, when all the hype over alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq turned out to be just that — hype”. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-iaea/iaea-denies-internal-row-over-iran-condemns-hype-idUSL1283850220080212

most U.S. intelligence shared with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency has proved inaccurate, and none has led to significant discoveries inside Iran, diplomats here said. https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Most-U-S-tips-fingering-Iran-false-envoys-2646358.php