Iran has a ‘shockingly strong’ war-crimes case against Trump over Soleimani’s killing — and it could win

Mitch Prothero 

• Iran says it will pursue war-crimes charges against President Donald Trump at the International Criminal Court in the Hague over this month’s assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
• A legal expert told Insider that Iran would have a good chance of winning any case at the ICC.
• The US has defended the killing by saying that Soleimani posed an “imminent” threat to the US.
• Agnes Callamard, UN Special Rapporteur on Extra-Judicial Executions, tweeted that the bar for justifying lethal action in such circumstances is extremely high and requires a threat level that the US has so far failed to identify.
• A NATO military attaché in the Middle East told Insider that the case against the US is “shockingly strong.”
• Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories.

Iran will pursue war-crimes charges against President Donald Trump at the International Criminal Court in the Hague over the January 3 assassination of its top commander, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, outside Baghdad’s international airport, according to Gholam Hossein Esmaeili, the spokesman for Iran’s top judicial authorities.

“We intend to file lawsuits in the Islamic Republic, Iraq and The Hague Court [International Court of Justice] against the military and government of America and against Trump,” Esmaeili said at a Tuesday press conference.

“There is no doubt that the US military has done a terrorist act assassinating Guards Commander Lt. Gen. Soleimani and Second-in-Command of Iraq Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis … and Trump has confessed doing the crime.”….more here

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