Iran says 'best response' for US forces to leave Iraq
Officials in Tehran renewed calls for an end to the American military presence in neighboring Iraq as a response to the US killing of Iran’s top commander Qasem Soleimani.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the ouster of American forces from neighboring Iraq would be “the best response” to the US killing of Gen. Qasem Soleimani. The Iranian commander died in a US airstrike outside Baghdad’s international airport last January.
Zarif made the comments at a meeting with his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein in Tehran on Wednesday. The top Iranian diplomat expressed gratitude to the Iraqi side for its legal pursuit of the Soleimani case, with hopes that those behind “the heinous crime … will face punishment through judicial proceedings.”
