The Iranian government on Sunday accused the United States of blocking the investigation into the death of General Qasem Soleimani in a US bombing in Iraq in January 2020, in remarks marking the third anniversary of his death.
«Necessary steps have been taken to follow up the case of General Qasem Soleimani’s martyrdom, although unfortunately both Americans and Westerners are throwing stones and obstacles in the legal pursuit of the case, but the hands of the Islamic Republic of Iran are not tied,» Iranian Foreign Minister Hosein Amirabdolahian said.
The foreign minister added that the country’s authorities are following «all legal paths.» «In a memorandum, we announced and put on record the responsibility of the U.S. government at that time for this assassination, and we will follow our complaint in its natural way,» he explained.
«Parallel to that, other measures have been taken, such as the fact that about 60 relevant US officials who were involved in this assassination have been placed on the terrorist blacklist of the Islamic Republic of Iran,» Amirabdolahian has communicated, who has assured that this aspect has been one of the discussions in the recent negotiations with Washington.
The Ministry would have justified that this sanction was «precise and correct» because the objective was «to bring these people to justice», as reported by the Irna news agency.
Iran requested in January 2021 the Interpol police agency to issue a red alert to achieve the arrest of Trump and 48 other people allegedly involved in the bombing that killed Soleimani, then head of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
The then head of Iran’s judicial apparatus and current president of the country, Ebrahim Raisi, stressed that Trump «will have to pay» for the «atrocity» of the bombing executed at the airport in Iraq’s capital Baghdad after Soleimani’s arrival on a visit to the country.
Soleimani was one of the victims of a drone attack — which led Iraq’s Parliament to demand the departure of international troops from the country — perpetrated by the United States in January 2020, which also included Abu Mahdi al Muhandis, then ‘number two’ of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) — a coalition of Iraqi pro-government militias supported by Iran –.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
