U.S. Killing Of Iran’s Gen. Soleimani ‘Was Unlawful,’ U.N. Expert Says

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The U.S. killing of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in January “was unlawful and arbitrary under international law,” a U.N. human rights investigator says, calling the drone strike in Baghdad a violation of Iraq’s sovereignty.

The investigator also says the U.S. has not produced any proof to back its claim that the attack was justified by the need to stop an imminent attack.

Soleimani was the highly influential commander of the Quds Force unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The U.S. killed him in a targeted drone strike on Jan. 3, as Soleimani and others traveled in a convoy from Baghdad’s airport.

President Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper have said the U.S. targeted Soleimani — a key architect of Iran’s strategy in conflicts involving the U.S. — to prevent a looming threat.

After ordering the strike, Trump said Soleimani was “plotting imminent and sinister attacks” against American interests.

Read more at NPR.

{Matzav.com}


4 COMMENTS

  1. who is the U.N. to say whether the United States can go after a chief terrorist who murdered men, women and children all over the world? they’re not protecting innocent people at all.

  2. according to those amalaikim, most of Eretz Yisroel is also illegal, so President Trump finds himself in good company.

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