Iran Embassy Slams UK MP’s Endorsement of Assassination
LONDON (Dispatches) -- The Iranian embassy in London on Monday censured Conservative British MP Tom Tugendhat for “absolutely unlawful” endorsing of the “arbitrary assassination” of Iran’s top anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani ordered by Donald Trump.
In a post on its X account, the embassy rejected Tugendhat’s claim that Trump’s decision to authorize the assassination of Soleimani triggered a chain of events that finally led to the overthrow of former Syrian president Basher al-Assad.
Tugendhat, a former UK security minister, also predicted that Iran would collapse in a few years.
“It’s absolutely unlawful and immoral to endorse arbitrary killing and assassination,” the embassy wrote. It added that calling for war and aggression against a member state of the United Nations is “extremely reckless”.
“Only an ignorant and irresponsible person with a troubled background can be so low as to approve lawlessness, incite violence and suggest attacking another nation,” the Iranian embassy emphasized.