Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei said at a ceremony held in the northeastern city of Mashhad late on Monday that Iran had made initial correspondences demanding the US to prosecute the suspects accused of having a role in General Soleimani’s assassination three years ago.
Kadkhodaei said preliminary legal measures have been taken with regard to the 1973 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents.
The senior official, who also leads Iran’s Guardian Council’s research center, added that an indictment has been prepared on the case which accuses some 90 US nationals of involvement in General Soleimani’s assassination, adding that the indictment will soon be submitted to a court for further proceedings.
Referring to cooperation between Iran and Iraq on the case, he said Iraq has the right to be involved in efforts to investigate the assassination as it took place inside the Arab country and several Iraqi nationals were also among the victims of the incident.
Kadkhodaei said the two neighboring countries have formed a joint committee to pursue the case, adding that the Iraqi members of the committee are now in Iran to discuss how they can cooperate on the case.
General Soleimani, the former commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, was assassinated along a number of his companions, including Iraqi popular militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, in a US drone attack just outside the main airport in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on January 3, 2020.
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