Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi vowed revenge on Monday for the United States assassination of Iranian preferred Qassem Soleimani years in the past until former US President Donald Trump turned into placed on trial.
Iran and organizations allied with it in Iraq were retaining occasions to honour Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force, the foreign places arm of the elite Revolutionary Guards.
He turned into killed in Iraq in a drone strike on Jan. 3, 2020, ordered with the aid of using then president Trump.
“If Trump and (former secretary of kingdom Mike) Pompeo aren’t attempted in a honest courtroom docket for the crook act of assassinating General Soleimani, Muslims will take our martyr’s revenge,” Raisi stated in a televised speech on Monday.
On Sunday, Iran advised the U.N. Security Council in a letter to maintain america and Israel, which Tehran says turned into additionally worried withinside the killing, to account, in line with Iranian media.
Days after the assassination, america advised the United Nations that the killing turned into self-defence and vowed to take extra action “as necessary” withinside the Middle East to guard U.S. employees and interests.