"Any court failing to condemn this crime would lose its moral and professional integrity," Dehghan said Wednesday in a meeting with legal experts and university professors from Iraq.
General Soleimani, a revered commander of the fight against terrorism in the region, was assassinated along with his Iranian and Iraqi companions in a US drone strike outside Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020.
Dehghan asserted that the West lacks moral authority for arbitration of disputes among Islamic countries, and suggested that Iran and Iraq, as leading Islamic nations in legal matters, can take the initiative by establishing a regional judicial court.
He emphasized that the legal communities of Iran and Iraq have a duty to hold the United States accountable for its crimes and violations of human rights through legal channels.
Furthermore, the Iranian official denounced the US and its allies for exploiting international legal systems and rules as "a political tool".
Despite having "the blood of thousands of innocent women and children on their hands", the Americans continue to make claims about the state of human rights in other nations, he noted.
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