Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi demanded that former President Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo be prosecuted for the assassination of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani.
During a televised address on the second anniversary of the U.S. drone strike that killed Soleimani, Raisi warned that a failure to do so would result in some form of revenge.
“If Trump and Pompeo are not tried in a fair court for the criminal act of assassinating Gen. Soleimani, Muslims will take our martyr’s revenge,” Raisi said, according to Reuters. “The aggressor, murderer, and main culprit, the then-president of the United States, must be tried and judged under the (Islamic) law of retribution, and God’s ruling must be carried out against him.”
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Soleimani was the top general in the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is considered a terrorist organization by the Pentagon.
The Pentagon defended the Jan. 3, 2020, drone strike in Baghdad, saying Trump ordered the attack as Soleimani was “actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region” at the time.
According to Raisi, Soleimani was on a diplomatic mission in Baghdad at the request of Iraq when he was killed.
In the days that followed Soleimani’s death, Iran fired missiles at two bases housing U.S. forces. Dozens of troops were injured, and many have since been approved to receive Purple Hearts.
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Iranian officials penned a letter to the U.N. Security Council and General Assembly on Sunday calling for resolutions against both the United States and Israel, which Tehran claims was also involved in the killing of Soleimani.
