Iran has applied to Interpol for an international arrest
warrant for U.S. President Donald Trump in connection with the murder of the
Iranian top general Qassem Soleimani a year ago.
Iran’s justice spokesman Gholam Hossein Ismaili disclosed
this on Iranian state television on Tuesday
“In this regard, we have filed a ‘red notice’ at Interpol
against 48 people, including Trump, U.S. commanders, and Pentagon
representatives as well as U.S. troops in the region,” Ismaili said.
There is constructive cooperation with neighbouring Iraq on
the issue, the spokesman added.
Interpol, founded in 1923, coordinates policing operations
for its 194 member states.
A country can use the “red notice” to request other
countries to track down and arrest a person.
On Jan. 3, 2020, on Trump’s instructions, the U.S. Army
killed Soleimani, who was on a visit to Iraq with a rocket attack near Baghdad
airport.
The influential Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes,
the deputy head of Iraq’s Hashd al-Shaabi militia, was also killed.
Soleimani was the commander of the elite Quds Force, part of
an elite unit of the Iranian armed forces.
He coordinated the activities of militias loyal to Iran in
Iraq and other countries.
President Hassan Rowhani called Soleimani a national hero
and he has become a legend in the region after his assassination by the U.S.
Tehran will avenge his murder “in due course” and at the
same time take legal action against Trump and the Pentagon, Rowhani said.
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