Baghdad, Iraq.
An Iraqi court ruled on Thursday a national arrest warrant against outgoing US President, Donald Trump, in the context of the investigation into the elimination of Abu Mehdi Al Muhandis, a powerful pro-Iranian commander in Iraq, who was murdered along with Iranian General Qassem Soleimani last year.
In June, Iran had issued an arrest warrant demanding the publication of a notice to Interpol against Trump for the death of General Soleimani, a procedure that has so far been unsuccessful.
The drone that attacked the two men’s vehicles at Baghdad airport on January 3, 2020, left on Trump’s orders, who days later was happy to have eliminated “two (men) for the price of one.”
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The court of Rusafa, Baghdad’s eastern sector, “decided to issue an arrest warrant against outgoing United States President Donald Trump, in accordance with Section 406 of Iraq’s Penal Code,” a statement from the judicial authority describes. .
This article provides for the death penalty for all first degree murder. The court claims to have completed the preliminary investigation, but “investigations continue to uncover the other perpetrators of this crime, be they Iraqis or foreigners.”
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Iranian supporters in Iraq for a year they continue to accuse them of complicity in these murders of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al Kazimi, then head of the secret services.
With the commemoration of the first anniversary of the two men’s deaths, the political climate – already tense as legislative promises approached in June – has become damaging.