Iran accuses Britain, Germany of being involved in assassination of Soleimani

SANAA, Dec. 30 (YPA) – The Attorney General in Tehran, Ali Al-Qassi Mehr, on Wednesday, accused the British company G4S, responsible for aviation security at Baghdad Airport, of being involved in the assassination of Qassem Soleimani.
The Iranian Attorney General clarified that the British company had provided the US military in Iraq with the arrival date of the plane, which was carrying Qassem Soleimani.
The Attorney General also stated that investigations indicate Germany’s involvement in the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, and explained that the US Air Force base in Germany is responsible for directing the plane, which targeted Soleimani’s convoy and providing flight information and data for US forces.
The Iranian “Tasnim” agency also quoted the Secretary-General of the Asaib Ahl al-Haq Movement in Iraq, Sheikh Qais Khazali, as saying, “There is a British company responsible for the security of Baghdad International Airport, which is involved in the assassination of  Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis.”
Khazali also added in a television interview broadcast by Asaib Ahl al-Haq’s satellite channel Al-Ahd that “the British G4S company responsible for Baghdad airport security participated in part of the mission to carry out the assassination of Qassem Soleimani and Al-Muhandis, providing the United States with information.”
On Wednesday, Iranian Attorney General Muhammad Jaafar Montazeri announced that 45 agents who helped assassinate Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of the Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, have been identified.
While Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Assistant Speaker of the Iranian Parliament for International Affairs, said that “the number of the main accused in the assassination of the martyr Soleimani has risen to 48 Americans,” according to the official Iranian News Agency.
Abdollahian continued by saying that “Iran will avenge the blood of the martyr Soleimani at the appropriate time,” and saw that “Iran has so far dealt popular and military slaps to the American terrorist administration,” as he put it.