The United States killed Revolutionary Guard Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike in Baghdad, Iraq in January 2020. The assassination prompted Iran to launch ballistic missiles at two Iraqi bases housing US troops, and pushed Tehran and Washington to the brink of war.
Iran has repeated its call for justice for slain anti-terror commander Qasem Soleimani, with Iran's ambassador to the United Nations office in Geneva characterising the general's killing as an act of “state terrorism.”
Characterising the Soleimani assassination as “a brutal, arbitrary, unjust, and illegal act,” the diplomat criticised the Biden administration over its lack of action on the matter and saying its “failure in holding accountable and bringing to justice the perpetrators behind the assassination is explicitly clear.”
The diplomat stressed that Iran and its regional allies would “never stop” in their quest to “bring the perpetrators behind that heinous crime to justice.”
Baghaei Hamaneh's comments come on the one-year anniversary of a report by the UN Human Rights Council which found Soleimani's killing to have been an “unlawful” act and a violation of the UN Charter. The US dismissed these conclusions.
Soleimani's vehicle convoy was struck by a US drone at Baghdad's airport on 3 January 2020, with Iraqi counter-terror commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, leader of the Baghdad…
