NEW YORK (Dispatches) -- Iran’s foreign minister says U.S. terrorism is epitomized by the assassination of Iran’s senior anti-terror commander, General Qassem Soleimani.
“The assassination of Martyr General Soleimani, the great General of Peace, by the United States on the Iraqi soil, was one of the most obvious instances of terrorism,” Hussein Amir-Abdollahian said during a face-to-face meeting with Abdulla Shahid on Thursday here.
An international legal committee has been formed inside the Islamic Republic to pursue the atrocity, with the aim of consigning those who perpetrated and ordered it to justice, he added.
The foreign minister went on to address other forms of American terrorism that has been targeting Iran, pointing to the economic terrorism that Washington has been waging against the Iranian nation through its oppressive sanctions.
Amir-Abdollahian noted how the U.S. has been tying the economic terrorism to health and pharmaceutical terrorism too, referring to its prevention of exports of direly-needed medicines to Iran.
Separately, Iran’s foreign minister called on the United Nations to speak with a unanimous voice against the United States making use of terrorism against world nations for political objectives during a meeting with UN chief Antonio Guterres.