Tehran is determined to sue US President Donald Trump before the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the killing of Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force commander General Qasem Soleimani, judiciary spokesman Gholam-Hossein Esmaili said on Tuesday.
"Those who commit offences will be investigated. We need to name the US president as the main defendant," Raisi said, adding, "We won’t let it go unnoticed, he must be convicted at the international level.”
He pointed out that the assassination of the martyr Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis was a clear evidence for America’s terrorism as Trump himself confessed to committing this crime.
The escalation between the U.S. and Iran escalated after Iranian-backed Iraqi paramilitary groups broke into the US Embassy in Baghdad last week following US air raids against Tehran-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia bases in retaliation for missile attacks that killed a US contractor in northern Iraq last week.
It is noteworthy that the US carried out strikes on January 3 on military vehicles inside Baghdad International Airport, in which Soleimani was killed.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared, on Friday, a three-day mourning period after the killing of Soleimani.
Khamenei stressed that “harsh retaliation is waiting” for the US, adding that Soleimani’s killing will double the motivation of the resistance against the United States and Israel.
On the other hand, the Pentagon confirmed that Soleimani was killed, explaining: “the strike that killed him aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans.
It added that Trump ordered the killing of Soleimani to protect US personnel abroad.
The Pentagon stated that Soleimani and the elite Quds Force was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans and coalition forces in Iraq and Syria.
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