Iranian Justice Minister Goram Hussein Mohseni Eji stressed the need for the most severe prosecution of the murderers of Lieutenant General Qassim Suleimani, Iran's top counter-terrorism commander, and some Iranian scientists.
"We will not let the blood of these innocent people be wasted," Mohseni Eji said Monday, accusing the U.S. and Israeli regimes of committing terrorist crimes.
On January 3, 2020, the U.S. military conducted an air operation on the orders of former U.S. President Donald Trump to assassinate Iranian General Soleimani. The attack near Baghdad International Airport resulted in the deaths of civilian counter-terrorism commanders and their companions, including Abu Mahdi Muhandis, Deputy Commander of the Civilian Mobilization Force.
Iranian officials have vowed on several occasions to avenge the assassination of two top commanders and the killing of supreme nuclear scientist Mawson Fakhrizadeh.
As part of its retaliation, Iran fired a series of ballistic missiles at Ain Al-Assad Air Base in Iraq's western Anbar province on January 8, 2020, resulting in 110 U.S. troops diagnosed with "traumatic brain injury."
Iran denounced the assassination as "state terrorism" and vowed to end the U.S. presence in the region as a final act of retaliation, while urging neighboring Iraq to deport U.S. troops.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abduhiyan promised to bring the case to justice and bring the perpetrators to justice.
Iran's attorney general said the United States, the Israeli regime and its proxies are committing crimes against humanity in various forms around the world, and that they have committed atrocities against freedom-seeking countries in the world in history, especially in recent decades.
Iran's top judicial official called on Muslim countries to "remain vigilant in the face of enemy machinations and not to be deceived by them as they seek to create divisions in the Muslim world."
He also said Muslim countries around the world should not allow evil forces to achieve their "malicious goals" and that freedom seekers should not tolerate crimes against humanity committed by arrogant forces claiming to advocate human rights.
Over the past two weeks, he said, under the nurturing and support of the United States, remnants of global arrogance have killed innocent Muslim believers in the Afghan cities of Kunduz and Kandahar.
"Those who accuse Iran of human rights abuses and who themselves are the biggest human rights violators must be punished and held accountable for the crimes committed by the Iranian people and other freedom-seeking countries," he said. ”
During Friday's prayers, three serial explosions occurred at the Bibi Fatima Mosque, killing more than 60 people. It was one of the biggest explosions in Kandahar. Just a week ago, a bomb attack on a Shiite mosque in the northeastern city of Kunduz killed more than 150 people and injured dozens more.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi said on Sunday that ISIS terrorism was trying to accomplish a failed mission carried out by Western occupiers in Afghanistan, calling on Afghan officials to use state capabilities to ensure national security.