By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

Justice loses its very concept if sadistic killers who shamelessly brag about the terrorism they have committed, especially in shedding the blood of those striving for peace, progress, humanitarian values, and freedom from hegemonic yoke, are left unpunished – for whatever reason, including undue apprehension of the power, position, and protection, the criminals might enjoy.
In other words, in order to deter repetition of rampant acts of terrorism, the murderers, along with their accomplices, ought to be brought to justice and meted out the punishment they deserve as a warning to all would-be criminals of the consequences of their crimes against humanity.
This was the gist of the speeches that echoed yesterday on January 3 from the snow-covered heights of the Himalayas in Kashmir to the sun-scorched coasts of the Red Sea and all the way to the Mediterranean, as scholars, journalists, media personnel, politicians, freedom-fighters, and religious leaders joined the masses in commemorating the 2nd anniversary of the martyrdom of two of the topmost icons of the struggle against international terrorism.
They did not mince words when they demanded that the bloodthirsty rogue Donald Trump who as the then president of the US regime had connived with his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, and Israel’s notorious Crime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to assassinate Iran’s General Qassem Soleimani and Iraq’s Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, be convicted by the UN and given capital punishment.
President Hojjat al-Islam Seyyed Ibrahim Raisi, in his address to a huge gathering at Tehran’s sprawling Imam Khomeini Mosalla (Prayer Ground), rightly remarked that if “Trump the prime aggressor, murderer and criminal in the heinous crime of assassination of General Soleimani, is not put in the criminal dock, along with Pompeo, for trial in a fair mechanism of justice, and not given the maximum punishment, the Islamic Ummah will undoubtedly wreak vengeance.”
At the same time in New York, Iran’s permanent ambassador to the UN, Majid Takht-Ravanchi reminding the World Body of its investigative report in 2020 that castigated as “unlawful” the US assassination of Soleimani, al-Muhandis their eight colleagues in the terrorist attack on Baghdad International Airport, said:
“Given the dire implications of this terrorist act on international peace and security, the Security Council must live up to its Charter-based responsibilities and hold the United States and the Israeli regime to account for planning, supporting, and committing the terrorist act.”
Will the UN live up to its responsibilities and take necessary action against Trump and his criminal clique?
The answer is in the negative, because of the influence the US wields over the UN, but this will not be an impediment for those activists for justice determined to penetrate the security ring around the terrorists to mete out revolutionary justice to them.
This was hinted by the bereaved daughters of the two prominent martyrs whose tears have not run dry and are resolved that the prime perpetrators of terrorism should be eliminated along with their accomplices.
Zainab Soleimani, during her vigil at Baghdad Airport on Sunday night – the eve of the martyrdom anniversary of the two topmost anti-terror commanders – reminded the Iraqi people of the love of her Iranian father for them from the depth of his heart, and how he had saved them from the US and the takfiri terrorists.
She said the Iranian and Iraqi people should work hand-in-hand for avenging the innocent blood of the martyrs.
Manar al-Muhandis in her presence at the grave of her father in the vast Wadi as-Salaam Cemetery in Najaf amidst a huge gathering, said Abu Mahdi devoted his life to the liberation of the Iraqi people, and “tonight, we (the Iraqi and Iranian people) vow to move closer, hand-in-hand and step by step, to the horizon of exacting ‘harsh revenge’ on enemies whose hands are stained with their blood.”
She added: “We will exact vengeance on the rulers of Saudi Arabia (as well), who think that they can revive the rule of the oppressive Omayyad regime with their money. We will indeed take revenge for every drop of blood that was shed unjustly in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.”
With such a firm determination shown by the lovers of freedom and justice, the day may soon dawn when the killers of Soleimani and al-Muhandis receive their due punishment, however tight the security ring around them.