Iran issued an arrest warrant for President Trump over the killing of top Iranian military official Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
Tehran prosecutor Qasi Mehr asked the International Criminal Police Organization for help on Monday to arrest Trump and 35 other U.S. political and military leaders accused of being involved in Soleimani’s death, according to the government-funded Islamic Republic News Agency.
Iran called Soleimani’s killing “murder and terrorist acts,” and asked Interpol to issue “red notices,” which are requests “to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition, surrender, or similar legal action.”
The president is in no danger of arrest, and Interpol’s guidelines prohibit the international group from “undertaking any intervention or activities of a political” nature.
Tensions between the United States and Iran soared following the U.S. drone strike in January that killed Soleimani, the 62-year-old commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s elite Quds Force, whom Washington believes was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of U.S. troops in Iraq. The U.S. claimed Soleimani was planning future attacks that posed a threat to U.S. national security.
