U.S. Killing of Top Iranian General Was Unlawful, U.N. Expert Says
7/8/20
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from The Wall Street Journal,
7/8/20:
A top United Nations investigator condemned the U.S. killing of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in January as unlawful, saying Washington failed to provide sufficient evidence that he posed an immediate threat to American interests to justify the drone strike.
Agnes Callamard, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, also deemed illegal Iran’s retaliatory missile strikes five days later, which targeted a base in Iraq housing U.S. troops.
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