Iran Indicts President Trump: Juan Cole Takes it Seriously

Juan Cole (Profile)


Breaking!!!

"Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mehr News Service reports that Tehran prosecutor Ali al-Qasi Mehr issued an arrest notice with Interpol on Monday for President Donald Trump and 35 other American officials. The request was for Interpol to issue a “red notice” for an act of murder and terrorism, to wit, the assassination on January 3 of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani at Baghdad International Airport. Soleimani headed the Jerusalem Brigade (external special ops.) of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, Iran’s national guard."

University of Michigan comedian Juan Cole, who generally takes the side of every bad actor in the Middle East, has sat up and taken serious notice of the fact that some Iranian prosecutor has issued something akin to an arrest warrant for President Trump over the killing of General Qasem Soleimani in Iraq. Interpol laughed it off, but not Professor Cole in Ann Arbor, America's academic nerve center.

https://www.juancole.com/2020/06/gander-interpol-soleimani.html

According to Cole, Soleimani was not a terrorist. He goes on to give us a short history of Soleimani's career, which leaves me confused as to whether he was General Patton or General Rommel, General Eisenhower or General Keitel.

And by the way, the prosecutor mentioned by Cole, Ali al Qasi Mehr, is hardly a non-entity. He has quite a record, as pointed out by the Gatestone Institute in this 2019 article.

"With so much blood on his hands, it is not surprising that Raisi, soon after his elevation to Chief Prosecutor, appointed none other than Ali Al-Qasi Mehr as the new Prosecutor of Tehran. Al-Qasi Mehr's own reputation is that of a hardliner who has long favoured public executions and amputations as a means of maintaining control in both capital and minor cases."

Cole concludes by asking why Interpol should summarily dismiss Iran's complaint against Trump. Cole's answer to his own question  has nothing to do with Orwell's Animal Farm. The real reasons are that it is a frivolous complaint issued by the world's largest state supporter of international terrorism. Soleimani was an instrument of that terror. In fact, nothing coming out of Iran should be honored by Interpol because Iran is hardly a member in good standing of the world community. Ever since the 1979 revolution, Iran has sent its agents around the world to murder its political enemies.They respect nobody's sovereignty, so why should international arrest warrants be issued in their name?

If Cole wants to carry water for the mullahs in Iran, that is his right under free speech. However, as with most positions he takes, taking the side of this odious regime invites ridicule.