Case of killing of top Iranian commander, Tehran took a big step against America

Iran’s foreign minister has said that Tehran has blacklisted about 60 US officials on charges of involvement in the assassination of top Iranian commander Qasim Suleimani. In a television interview ahead of the third anniversary of Soleimani’s killing, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdullahian, a former commander of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps’ Quds Force, said on Sunday that Iran was investigating the commander’s killing.

He insisted that Americans and Westerners were hindering Iran’s efforts to legally pursue the case, Xinhua news agency reported. According to Amir-Abdolahian, during the recent round of Vienna talks on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal, the Americans sought to remove their former officials from Iran’s blacklist.

The commander was killed on Trump’s orders
On January 3, 2020, on the orders of the then President Donald Trump, the US military killed Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iraq’s paramilitary force Hashd Shaabi, in a drone strike near Baghdad International Airport. The assassination was condemned by Iran as state terrorism.

On January 8, 2020, Iran responded to the assassination by launching a missile at the US Ain al-Asad base in the Iraqi province of Anbar.