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Iran rejects claims about killing Trump, says pursues Soleimani case legally
CNN reported Tuesday that US authorities received intelligence from a “human source” weeks ago on an alleged Iranian plot against the former president, prompting his protection to be boosted. Other US outlets also reported the alleged plot.
CNN said the alleged plot was not linked to Saturday’s shooting at a Trump campaign rally in Pennsylvania, in which the former president was wounded and a supporter killed.
The US National Security Council said it had been “tracking Iranian threats against former Trump administration officials for years” after Tehran had threatened revenge for the 2020 assassination of commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Qassem Soleimani in a US drone strike in neighboring Iraq.
Iran’s mission to the United Nations called the accusations “unsubstantiated and malicious”.
The mission, nevertheless, asserted that “from the Islamic Republic’s standpoint, Trump is a criminal, who should be tried and punished in court for [issuing] General Soleimani’s assassination order.”
“Iran has chosen the legal pathway to hold him accountable,” it stated. Foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said Iran “strongly rejects any involvement in the recent armed attack against Trump”.
The Islamic Republic considers such claims to be a product of malicious political goals and intents, he added.
He added however that Iran remains “determined to prosecute Trump over his direct role in the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani”.
Trump ordered his assassination in a drone strike just outside Baghdad airport in January 2020.