Mourners are crushed in city of Kerman during procession for general killed by US drone strike
- Full report: dozens dead in crush at Suleimani procession
- Future of US military presence in Iraq in doubt
- Nato chief holds back from endorsing Suleimani killing
1.12pm GMT
Javad Zarif insists that Iran respects international law, unlike Donald Trump.
CNN has broadcast more of its interview with the Iranian foreign secretary. In it he explained that Iran‘s response to the killing of Suleimani will be proportionate because it abides by international law.
The United States violated three principles: Iraqi sovereignty and the agreement they had with Iraq, the got a response from the Iraqi parliament [to expel US troops]; they violated the emotions of the people, they will get a response from the people; they killed one of our most revered commanders and they took responsibility for it. This is state terrorism … and we will respond, but we will respond proportionately, not disproportionately because we are committed to law. We are law abiding people are we not lawless like President Trump.
We have people on our side in this region. That’s much more important. Beautiful military equipment doesn’t rule the world, people rule the world.
He [Trump] needs to wake up and apologise. He has to apologise, he has to change course. He cannot add mistake upon another mistake. He is just making it worse for America. He is destroying the US constitution, he is destroying the US political process, he is destroying the rule of law in the United States.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif called President Trump‘s decision to order the airstrike that killed top Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani an act of “state terrorism” in an interview with CNN. https://t.co/NHxEPJhTTx pic.twitter.com/NuKXgILpWF
12.53pm GMT
Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has been told he will not get a US visa to travel to the United Nations later this week, AP reports
Javad Zarif told CBS This Morning, that the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, informed the UN secretary general, who in turn relayed to Zarif, that they did not have time to review my request.
Denying me a visa in violation of 1947 UNHQ Agreement pales in comparison to:
-Pompeo’s threat to starve Iranians (crime against humanity)
-Trump’s bluster about cultural heritage (war crime)
–#EconomicTerrorism
-Cowardly assassination
But what are they really afraid of? Truth?
Source: Iran raises death toll from Suleimani funeral crush to 40 – latest updates
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