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Top U.N. Investigator Slams Trump Administration For Killing Of Soleimani: ‘Unlawful,’ Says ‘International Law Is International. It Is Not American.’

Hank Berrien
Top U.N. Investigator Slams Trump Administration For Killing Of Soleimani: ‘Unlawful,’ Says ‘International Law Is International. It Is Not American.’
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A top United Nations investigator slammed the Trump administration for killing the Iranian terrorist leader Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in January, calling the action “unlawful.”

Agnes Callamard, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, stated in her report, which was to be submitted to the Human Rights Council on Thursday, “To the extent that evidence points to the U.S. and Iranian strikes being retaliations or reprisals, each would be unlawful.” The report also said that the attack on Soleimani violated the territorial integrity of Iraq.

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