Benjamin B. Ferencz, 99, said he 'cannot stay silent' on what he termed the 'murder' of the influential Iranian commander.
The U.S. strike that killed Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani flouted both national and international law, according to a former lawyer who helped prosecute Nazi leaders at the post-World War II Nuremberg trials.this week expressing his opposition to the drone strike that killed Soleimani and several others outside Baghdad International Airport earlier this month., Ferencz—who arrived in the U.S.
But he suggested the current administration is undermining, rather than upholding, international law."The administration recently announced that, on orders of the president, the United States had 'taken out' an important military leader of a country with which we were not at war," he wrote. The killing touched off a week of high tensions between Washington and Tehran, during which time Iran launched ballistic missiles against American troops in Iraq, accidentally shot down a passenger jet outside Tehran and announced it would no longer abide by the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action—also known as the Iran nuclear deal.Soleimani was the head of Iran's Quds Force, a unit within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps responsible for foreign and covert operations.
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