{"id":121329,"date":"2022-01-04T09:13:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T14:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=121329"},"modified":"2022-01-04T09:13:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T14:13:10","slug":"iran-joins-democrats-in-demanding-trump-be-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=121329","title":{"rendered":"Iran joins Democrats in demanding Trump be jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two years ago Trump authorized the drone strike that took out Iran’s chief terrorist General Solemani. The Iranian President is demanding Trump (and former SecState Pompeo among many others) be placed on trial for it. He joins the chorus of American Democrats who have also called for Trump to be tried for various imaginary slights.<\/p>\n

Reuters<\/a> reports;<\/p>\n

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, speaking on the second anniversary of the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani by the United States, said that former U.S. President Donald Trump must face trial for the killing or Tehran would take revenge.<\/p>\n

Iran and groups allied with it in Iraq and other countries have been holding events to honour Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force, the overseas arm of the elite Revolutionary Guards. He was killed in Iraq in a drone strike on Jan. 3, 2020, ordered by then President Trump.<\/p>\n

“If Trump and (former secretary of state Mike) Pompeo are not tried in a fair court for the criminal act of assassinating General Soleimani, Muslims will take our martyr’s revenge,” Raisi said in a speech on Monday.<\/p>\n

“The aggressor, murderer and main culprit – the then president of the United States – must be tried and judged under the (Islamic) law of retribution, and God’s ruling must be carried out against him,” Raisi added.<\/p>\n

Under Iran’s Islamic laws, a convicted murderer can be executed unless the family of the victim agree to take “blood money” through a reconciliation.<\/p>\n

Iranian judicial officials have communicated with authorities in nine countries after identifying 127 suspects in the case, including 74 U.S. nationals, Prosecutor-General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri told state television.<\/p>\n

“The criminal former president (Trump) is at the top of the list,” he said.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Iran urged the United Nations Security Council in a letter to hold the United States and Israel, which Tehran says was also involved in the killing, to account, Iranian media said.<\/p>\n

Days after the assassination, the United States told the United Nations that the killing was self-defence. The then U.S. Attorney General William Barr said Trump clearly had the authority to kill Soleimani and the general was a “legitimate military target”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Raisi joins other visionaries of justice.\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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