Iran comments on Yahoo News report regarding Soleimani's death

World 01:49 PM - 2021-05-10
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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh Monday commented on the Yahoo News report on the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani and the involvement of Isreal and the Kurdistan Region's Counter Terrorism Group (CTG).

 

Khatibzadeh said, "the case of Martyr Soleimani is being pursued in the Judiciary and in international forums. Many of these reports are not hidden from us,” ISNA reported.

 

“Our position is the same, those who directly or indirectly in any country participated in this cowardly assassination certainly have criminal and judicial responsibility and the relevant authorities are investigating their cases and will deal with them in their own way,” he added.

 

Yahoo News published a report on Saturday, in which several former U.S. officials revealed the details of the Trump administration’s covert plan to eliminate Qasem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Quds Force, who was killed along with Iraq's PMF commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in an airstrike near Baghdad airport on January 3rd, 2020.

 

The report claimed that the Kurdistan Region's Counter Terrorism Group (CTG) performed a “key role” in the killing of the Iranian general.

 

“A member of the Counter Terrorism Group (CTG), an elite Kurdish unit in northern Iraq with deep links to U.S. Special Operations,” aided the US Delta Ground Force team, the report said.

 

In a special statement to PUKmedia on Monday, Nazem Dabbagh, the representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in the Iranian capital Tehran denied that Kurdistan Counter Terrorism Group forces participated in the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani. read more

 

"We deny any participation by the CTG in the Kurdistan Region in the assassination of Hajj Qasem Soleimani, as I am the representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government and the PUK in Tehran and if such thing was true, we would have known from the official Iranian authorities, and there would be messages to let our party know that this happened," he added.

 

The Kurdistan Counter Terrorism Group on Sunday denied any role in the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. read more

 

CTG said, "We deny any knowledge or participation of our forces in such operations," adding that, "General Qassem Soleimani was a close friend of Late President Mam Jalal, and the Counter Terrorism forces."

 

 

 

PUKmedia - Edited by: Baha Amin

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