Iran has called on the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) to issue a “red alert” for the arrest of President Trump
Donald Trump’s attorney says the census count to determine seats in Congress won’t be done until February. Trump’s latest push for Georgia’s runoff, dominated by personal grievances and 47 other U.S. officials on Tuesday over the assassination of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani last year.
Iranian justice spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili called Trump “the main culprit” in Soleimani’s assassination, which he called a “terrorist crime,” the semi-official Mehr reported. according to NPR. Other U.S. officials included in the application are U.S. military commanders and officers from the region and the Pentagon.
The request was made the second time Iran called for help in detaining the president.
“The request to issue a ‘Red Notice’ to 48 people involved in the assassination of the martyr Soleimani, including the US President, as well as commanders and officers of the Pentagon and regional forces, was handed over to Interpol Esmaili said in a briefing.
Interpol’s red alerts call on police agencies around the world to help locate and detain fugitives, who are being prosecuted or who are wanted for prison sentences.
But the Interpol general secretariat told NPR that the constitution of the police association says that “it is strictly forbidden for the Organization to carry out any intervention or activity of a political, military, religious or racial nature.”
Trump and other administration officials said the U.S. led Soleimani in a January 2020 strike that ended up killing the general. The president had said Soleimani was “plotting imminent and sinister attacks” against the US
A United Nations investigator later concluded that the U.S. strike “was illegal and arbitrary under international law.”
Iran has promised retribution for the assassination of the general and days later the country launched a rocket at an Iraqi air base where US forces were housed, prompting traumatic brain injuries to more than 100 members of the service. American. The country first requested Trump’s arrest in June.
On the first one-year anniversary of Soleimani’s death, Iranian Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi said, “Trump will have to return, whatever his position,” NPR reported, citing conservative Iranian newspaper Kayhan .
“Whether he heads the U.S. administration or not, Trump should face retribution for the atrocity he has perpetrated,” he said.