TEHRAN: Iran’s judiciary said on Tuesday that a court order requiring the United States to pay $48 billion over the killing of Qassem Soleimani has entered the enforcement stage.
Judiciary spokesman Ali Kazemi said authorities were pursuing 73 people in connection with the case. He did not identify them in the available account or explain how Iran would enforce the payment order.
Soleimani commanded the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). A US drone strike killed him in Baghdad, Iraq, in January 2020.
Kazemi said Iran was pursuing both the civil and criminal aspects of the case. However, the announcement did not say when the court issued its ruling.
Iran’s judiciary says a court order for the US to pay $48 billion over Soleimani’s killing has entered enforcement.The Trump administration directed the US drone strike that killed Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad, Iraq, in January 2020.
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The US government has historically dismissed Iranian court rulings as symbolic political acts. It views them as having no binding international mechanism for enforcement.
Iran’s judiciary announced that a domestic lawsuit over the 2020 killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani has entered the enforcement phase, ordering the United States government to pay $48 billion in damages.
