The case came before Judge Hosseinzadeh at the 55th branch of the Tehran's Civil Court, which is focused on international cases, on Saturday.
Hosseinzadeh said nearly 3,000 Iranian citizens had filed a lawsuit against the US government demanding justice for the material, spiritual and punitive damage caused by General Soleimani's assassination.
“The court session includes 114 classes of legal cases received from different provinces of the country,” he said, adding that the then US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are among the suspects in the case.
Hosseinzadeh also said that Tehran's Civil Court had the jurisdiction to deal with the case under a law urging intensified actions against terrorist acts of the United States against Iran.
“According to the law, the Judiciary is tasked with dealing with the actions of a government that has martyred one of the senior Iranian military commanders,” he added.
General Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), was assassinated, along with several of his comrades, in a US drone strike directly ordered by Trump at the Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020.
Last month, Tehran’s chief prosecutor Ali Salehi said that some 73 people had been summoned for trial and indictment, including Trump, Pompeo, and then-head of US Central Command General Kenneth McKenzie in the case of General Soleimani’s assassination.
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