BAGHDAD (Dispatches) -- A senior Iranian judiciary official on Monday traveled to Iraq to follow up on the U.S. assassination of Iran’s top anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani at Baghdad airport.
Leading a delegation, the judiciary chief’s deputy for international affairs and secretary of the country’s High Council for Human Rights Kazem Gharibabadi said that the aim of the visit is to push for the acceleration of the legal process to bring those behind the assassination to justice.
“We hope that an indictment will be presented to the court in Iraq as soon as possible so that the perpetrators are brought to justice,” he said.
General Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and his Iraqi trenchmate Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-command of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), were martyred along with their companions in a U.S. drone strike on January 3, 2020.
The strike near Baghdad airport was authorized by then-U.S. president Donald Trump.
The two prominent anti-terror commanders were tremendously respected and admired across the region for their instrumental role in fighting and decimating the Daesh terrorist group in the region, particularly in Iraq and Syria.