Iraqi MP Urges Speeding Up Investigations into US Assassinations at Baghdad Airport
Inas al-Maksusi underlined that Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi should provide the parliament with eth results of the probes as soon as possible, Almaalomah website reported.
He regretted that the government has failed to fulfil its duty in this regard as well as the expulsion of US forces from Iraq.
Iraqi lawmakers unanimously approved a bill on January 5, demanding the withdrawal of all foreign military forces led by the United States from the country following the assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, along with Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy head of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), and their companions in a US airstrike authorized by President Donald Trump near Baghdad International Airport two days earlier.
In July, Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council said the country regarded the US assassination of General Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis on its soil as a criminal act.
The Council said it had coordinated its legal procedure with the Iranian Judiciary and the two countries would file a joint lawsuit against the US.
