In a recent statement, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif commended an Iraqi court's decision to order the arrest of former US president Donald Trump for the assassination of top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an Iraqi leader and commander of the Popular Mobilization Committee, who was also assassinated on January 3, 2020, by the US. "Putting an end to the presence of US forces in the region would be the best response to this terrorist act," Zarif is quoted as saying during a Wednesday meeting with Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs Fuad Hussein in Tehran, PressTV reported. Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), also applauded the arrest order issued by the Iraqi court for Trump on Wednesday. "We must not allow the blood of the martyrs Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Qassem Soleimani to go in vain, and organizers as well as perpetrators of this terrorist crime must be prosecuted and severely punished," Ali Shamkhani said in a meeting with the Iraqi foreign minister in Tehran. The arrest warrant against Trump was issued by a judge in Baghdad's investigative court on January 7, AP News reported at the time. Under the Iraqi… Read full this story
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