Iran to approach ICJ over Solemani's assassination

Over the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, Tehran will initially file a lawsuit in Iran, which is legal under the Islamic Penal Code and then it will do the same in Iraq and the Hague court against Trump and the US military.

Tehran: Iran's Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili on Wednesday said that the Islamic republic intends to file lawsuits in Iran, Iraq and the Hague court (International Court of Justice) against the military, the US government and President Donald Trump for the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani.

"We intend to file lawsuits in Iran, Iraq and the Hague court (International Court of Justice) against the military and government of the US and against Trump," Gholamhossein Esmaili was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

There is no doubt that the US military has done a "terrorist act" by assassinating the Soleimani, and Trump has confessed to doing "the crime," said Esmaili, Xinhua news agency reported.

"We will initially file a lawsuit in Iran, which is legal under the Islamic Penal Code," he said adding that "then, we will do the same in Iraq and the Hague court against Trump and the US military."

Soleimani, former Quds Force commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, was killed in a US airstrike near Baghdad International Airport on January 3.