TRUMP: Iran vows to take Trump to court for the assassination of Soleimani

During Wednesday`s press conference, Ebrahim Raisi stated that "Trump is the first criminal of the case of assassinating martyr Soleimani, who himself confessed to this crime in front of all the world's people, and therefore cannot be immune from punishment".

In regards to this, Iran has vowed to pursue U.S. President Donald Trump over the assassination of its top general Qassem Soleimani.

The head of Iran's judiciary said this week, that as the person who directly ordered the strike on Soleimani, Trump is a main target of prosecution.

"Fortunately, Trump's presidency has ended. But even if his term hadn't ended, it would be unacceptable to say someone shouldn't be accountable to law due to his administrative position," he said.

In a separate news conference on Wednesday, the spokesman of the powerful constitutional vetting body Guardian Council also said Iran would legally pursue Trump after he leaves the White House on January 20.

Until now President Trump has had immunity from prosecution but as his presidency ends, so too does his immunity.

"Legally pursuing the crime of the U.S. regime, especially Donald Trump, for issuing the order to assassinate martyr general Soleimani in international courts has its special requirements and immunity for heads of state from legal prosecution prevents this," he said.

The U.S. justified the assassination of Soleimani, head of the Quds Force within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, describing in statements that ban attack on U.S. troops was imminent but did not produce evidence, while Agnes Callamard, the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said investigators found nothing to support the claim.

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Callamard said the U.S. violated Iraqi sovereignty by conducting the drone strike near Baghdad International Airport on Iraqi soil.

"No evidence has been provided that General Soleimani specifically was planning an imminent attack against U.S. interests, particularly in Iraq, for which immediate action was necessary and would have been justified," she wrote in a report presented to the UN Human Rights Council in July.

She further stated that the attack violated Article 2(4) of the U.N.'s charter, which bans "the threat or use of force and calls on all Members to respect the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of other States."