Iraq judicial chief highlights arrest warrant for Trump over Soleimani killing
The 2020 US airstrike that killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad continues to be a sore point between the US and Iraqi governments.
Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council again brought up an arrest warrant for former US President Donald Trump on Thursday in connection to the 2020 assassination of the Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani and the leader of the Iraqi militia.
The council's president, Faiq Zidan, said that Trump is wanted for his “crime” in relation to the assassination of the “leaders of victory" and said an arrest warrant was issued. He made the remarks in front of a picture of Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the former leader of the Iran-backed Kitaib Hezbollah militia in Iraq.
“The court will not hesitate to take legal action,” said Zidan, as reported by the official Iraqi Media Network.
Soleimani and Muhandis were killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad on Jan. 3, 2020. Trump ordered the attack in response to Iran-backed militia supporters storming the US Embassy in Baghdad in the days prior, as well as attacks on US military forces in Iraq in 2019.
