Photo Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, center, at the United Nations last week. Mr. Zarif sent a letter to the secretary general of the United Nations in protest against the United States and a court-ordered use of nearly $2 billion in seized Iranian central bank assets to compensate American victims of terrorist attacks overseas. Credit Mark Lennihan/Associated Press Iran escalated its invective against the United States on Thursday over the court-ordered use of nearly $2 billion in seized Iranian central bank assets to compensate American victims of terrorist attacks overseas, calling the action “an outrageous robbery” and threatening unspecified retaliation. The criticism of the United States, in a letter by Iran ’s foreign minister to the secretary general of the United Nations , was among the most strident yet in a steadily increasing display of anger from Iran over American use of the assets, validated in an April […]