The Iranian judiciary condemns the United States for the killing of General Soleimani

A court in Tehran on Wednesday ordered the US government and other institutions and individuals in the North American country to pay nearly $50 billion (more than 46 billion euros) for the killing of General Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a US bombing. In Iraq in January 2020. Iranian justice ruled in favor of more than 3,300 plaintiffs, who will now have the right to recover damages that Washington will not be obligated to in the future, to the extent that the US government does not recognize the proceedings that were initiated. In the Islamic Republic in response to the bombing. In total, 42 institutions or individuals were listed as defendants, including agencies of the US federal government and groups linked to the armed forces, according to the official IRNA news agency. The Iranian authorities had gone so far as to request the arrest of former President Donald Trump for his responsibility for the attack. Soleimani was the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force at the time of the bombing, which also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was then the “number two” in the Popular Mobilization Forces – an alliance of pro-government militias. By Iran.