Iran Says Complaint Process Against US For Soleimani's Killing Initiated

Iranian vice president for legal affairs announced that the regime has initiated the process of filing a complaint for the killing of former IRGC-Quds commander Qasem Soleimani.

Soleimani was assassinated in a US drone strike near Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020, under the order of then-President Donald Trump.

The official, Mohammad Dehghan stated, "In April, we will register our complaint against the US government. The US government has allowed the assassination to take place against international conventions, and Trump and other US officials who violated the conventions have not been prosecuted." He emphasized that figures like Soleimani are considered internationally protected, claiming he had been on a "diplomatic mission" in Iraq at the time of the assassination.

Soleimani was the Iranian regime's top military and intelligence operative in the Middle East, establishing proxy militant groups and overseeing Iran's military involvement in Syria.

Dehghan noted a preliminary step requiring six months to pass from the time of warning the United States, and April 2024, when the complaint will be registered in The Hague.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian had previously disclosed in January that nearly 60 US officials were blacklisted by Tehran for their involvement in Soleimani's assassination.

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei have consistently vowed revenge for the killing of Soleimani. Since Soleimani's death, a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has been charged with planning to assassinate former US National Security Advisor John Bolton and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as retaliation for the military commander's killing.