News - Middle East: Iran’s President Ebrahim Raeisi has called for prosecution of former US president Donald Trump, stressing that Iran will pursue the assassination of the country's top anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani.

Raeisi made the remarks as he was addressing the 77th annual session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.

The president hailed Iran's "prominent and progressive" role in confronting high-handed and interventionist policies, including the "United States-crafted terrorism."

He noted how, thanks to General Soleimani's commandership, Iran managed to frustrate the plots that were aimed at manipulating the contours of the regional countries.

"We are going to follow up just prosecution of the former American president [Donald Trump]'s atrocity through a just court," Raeisi asserted.

The assassination, directly ordered by Trump, occurred near Baghdad airport on January 3, 2020. It also killed Soleimani’s companions, including deputy commander of Iraq's anti-terror Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

Both Soleimani and al-Muhandis were highly revered across the Middle East because of their key role in fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in the region, particularly in Iraq and Syria.

"The commander and the hero of this war against terrorism, and Daesh's destroyer was no one, but Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani," Raeisi said.
He commended General Soleimani as "the person, who was martyred in the path of [bringing about] the liberation of the nations of the region."

President Raeisi added that just prosecution of the atrocity that Trump has admitted to committing equals "doing humanity a service," asserting, "We will pursue justice and trial of the person who perpetrated it, and the one, who advised it, through a just court and until reaching a definite result."

'Iran backs promotion of justice worldwide'

The Iranian president considered justice to be the criteria by which all humanitarian causes are judged. "Justice translates into negation of oppression," he stated.
Some countries such as the Islamic Republic's success in retaining the nature of their Revolution, "has sustained hope in the hearts of the people of the world in establishment of justice."

The Islamic Revolution, which manifested the Iranian nation's march towards justice, has managed to sustain its dignity and authenticity in spite of various instances of sedition, he said.

The president prided himself on representing a nation that has, throughout the history, confronted other nations' thralldom.

"We support globalization of justice," he said, noting that the Iranian nation considered justice to be a source of unity, and oppression to be a precursor to warfare.

The chief executive denounced certain countries for their laying claim to be in favor of justice inside their own borders, but training various types of terrorists abroad and unleashing them upon other nations, or their trying to force other nations into submission by means of pressure.

West's double-standard towards human rights

Elsewhere in his remarks, the Iranian resident called some countries’ double-standard approach towards the issue of human rights as "the most important factor in institutionalization of human rights violations."