Both Al Jazeera and Sputnik are reporting on protests erupting in Iran and Iraq as the Jan. 3 anniversary nears of the 2020 assassination of Iran Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the then-commander of the elite Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), whom the Americans murdered in Baghdad, Iraq.
The legal department of Iran’s presidential office published a letter to the UN General Assembly on Jan. 1, calling for UN action against the United States for its role in the assassination, conducted under President Donald Trump.
The document called for “all legal initiatives in its power, including issuing a resolution” to condemn the U.S., and to strongly discourage any similar actions in the future.
Al Jazeera reported that, “The UN rapporteur for extrajudicial killing in July 2020 concluded in a report that Soleimani’s assassination was ‘unlawful’ and ‘arbitrary’ and violated the UN Charter.”
