Tehran plans to sue US President Donald Trump over the killing of General Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, Iranian Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi said, Eurasia Diary reports citing Tass News.
"Those who commit offences will be prosecuted. We need to name the US president as the main defendant," the Fars News Agency quoted Raisi as saying. "We won’t let it slide, he must be convicted at the international level," he added.
According to Raisi, "the Human Rights Council [a body under Iran’s Supreme Court — TASS] and the Foreign Ministry should address this issue." Soleimani’s killing violated all laws because he was a symbol of the fight against terrorism and support for the oppressed," the chief justice emphasized.
He did not specify with which international body Iran would file a lawsuit.