Iran says the current US administration is also "responsible" for the assassination of General Kasem Soleimani two years ago on the second anniversary of his death, according to the Israeli-language Times of Israel.
Former US President Donald Trump caused a "major shift in the region" on January 3, 2020, with the deliberate assassination of General Soleimani, who was commander of al-Quds, the foreign operations unit of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards. Al-Quds forces have been identified by the United States as a terrorist organization.
Suleimani was killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad ordered by Trump along with his Iraqi ally Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, which infuriated Iran and its allies.
"The US government has a clear international responsibility for this crime," the Iranian foreign ministry said in a statement on Twitter, marking the second anniversary of Soleimani's assassination.
"Undoubtedly, the United States crime in the assassination of General Suleimani is a clear manifestation of a 'terrorist attack' organized and carried out by the then US government, for which the White House is now responsible," it said of President Joe's administration. Biden.
Five days after Soleimani's assassination, Iran retaliated by firing missiles at a US air base at Ain al-Assad in Iraq, where US troops were stationed, and at another base near Arbil in the north.
No U.S. soldiers were reported killed in the strikes, but Washington said dozens had received traumatic injuries from the blasts.
Trump then said the drone strike came in response to a wave of attacks on US interests in Iraq, warning that he would hold Iran accountable if such attacks continued.
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