TEHRAN- Iranian Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei will pay a visit to Baghdad on Tuesday.

He will leave Tehran for Baghdad on Tuesday in response to the invitation of Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Council of Iraq, Faiq Zaidan.

During his sojourn, special work plans will be implemented to strengthen legal and judicial relations between Iran and Iraq as much as possible.

He is scheduled to have meetings with certain Iraqi officials in an effort to fortify bilateral ties. 

He is supposed to hold talks with Iranians residing in Iraq, have negotiation and coordination with Iraqi judicial authorities, follow up the moves done by the Iraqi judiciary given the handling of the case of the assassination of General Soleimani and his comrade Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy chief of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization. 

Last year, Abbasali Kadkhodaei, head of a special legal committee tasked with investigating the assassination of General Soleimani, called for formation of a joint Iran-Iraq court to follow the issue at international courts with greater speed.

“The crime that the regime of the U.S. committed in the assassination of Hajj Qassem and his companions was an open violation of international law,” Kadkhodaei asserted.

He went on to add that the assassination was also a “violation of Iraq’s sovereignty and violation of the (political) immunity of other countries’ officials.”

Kadkhodaei confirmed that so far Iran has demanded punishment for about 90 persons involved in the assassination, including those who aided and abetted in the terrorist act.

Among top figures who are subject to penalty are former U.S. president Donald Trump, his foreign secretary of state Mike Pompeo and national security advisor John Bolton.