Iraq has issued an arrest warrant for Donald Trump

 

Baghdad, JAN 7 - An Iraqi court on Thursday issued a national arrest warrant against incumbent US President Donald Trump in the investigation into the killing of Abu Mehdi al-Mouhandis, the powerful commander of pro-Iran forces in Iraq, killed last year along with Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, informs Agerpres, which quotes FP.

In June 2020, Iran issued an arrest warrant and demanded a "red notification" to Interpol on Trump's behalf for the assassination of General Soleimani, a procedure that has not been successful so far.

The drone that sprayed the vehicles in which the two were on January 3, 2020, at Baghdad airport, took off at the order of Trump, who expressed his satisfaction after a few days about the fact that two people were removed from a fire.

Soleimani, Donald Trump accused, "said that 'we will attack your country, we will kill your people'". "And then I said, 'How long do we have to hear this shit?'" President Trump continued to justify the killings, described as "illegal" and "arbitrary" by Agnes Callamard, the UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions.

The Baghdad Eastern District Court in Roussafa has "decided to issue an arrest warrant against US President Donald Trump under Article 406 of the Iraqi Penal Code," a judicial statement said. This article provides for the death penalty for any premeditated homicide.

The tribunal assured that it had completed the preliminary investigation, but that "investigations are continuing to expose other perpetrators of this crime, whether they are Iraqis or foreigners."

For a year now, pro-Iranian forces in Iraq have not stopped accusing Iraqi Prime Minister Moustafa al-Kazimi, then head of the intelligence services, of complicity in these assassinations, AFP notes.

With the festivities commemorating one year since their deaths, Iraq's political climate, already tense in the run-up to the June legislative elections, has become even harsher. Pro-Iran media promise "names soon", while several senior politicians have accused each other in recent televised interviews.

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COURTESY universul.net

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