People gather to protest the US airstrike in Iraq that killed Iranian Commander Qasem Soleimani, who led the elite Quds force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Sanaa, Yemen, on January 6, 2020.
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The Iranian government has issued an arrest warrant against United States President Donald Trump for the murder of his top commander Qasem Soleimani in January, the country’s semi-official Fars news agency reported Monday.
Tehran is also reportedly asking Interpol for help, according to Fars. Ali Alghasi-Mehr, Tehran’s attorney general, named Trump and 35 other Iranians accused of being involved in Soleimani’s death for facing “murder and terrorism charges,” and was quoted as saying he had asked Interpol. to issue “red notices” for them – the highest-level notice Interpol can issue about an individual to pursue their arrest.
However, Trump is not in danger of arrest and it is highly unlikely that Interpol will comply with Iran’s request, as the international agency’s guidelines prohibit him from “undertaking any intervention or activity of a political nature.”
Soleimani led the Iranian Quds Force, the foreign operations wing of the elite corps of the paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard. The Trump administration called him a terrorist and Washington held him responsible for the deaths of hundreds of US soldiers in Iraq.
Soleimani, 62, died in a drone attack led by Trump in early January while in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, in a move that sparked rising regional tensions and oil prices and triggered an attack. of retaliation by Iran and its representatives in Iraq. bases that house US troops.
The Trump administration has so far not responded to Iran’s announcement.
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