# Iran has issued an arrest warrant for Trump **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 29, 2020, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-has-issued-an-arrest-warrant-for-trump/913655 "2020-06-29T13:33:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-has-issued-an-arrest-warrant-for-trump/913655/1 "2020-06-29T13:33:16Z")
# Iran has issued an arrest warrant for Trump over the killing of Qassem Soleimani and asked Interpol to help detain him. > **[Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump; Interpol denies help](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/6/30/iran-issues-arrest-warrant-for-trump-interpol-denies-help)** > > The US killed General Soleimani and others in a January drone attack near Baghdad International Airport. Well, this is interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-has-issued-an-arrest-warrant-for-trump/913655/2 "2020-06-29T13:34:47Z")
Heh. Funny. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-has-issued-an-arrest-warrant-for-trump/913655/3 "2020-06-29T13:40:32Z")
Well this ought to serve as a refreshing change from the usual racist twitterrhea. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-has-issued-an-arrest-warrant-for-trump/913655/4 "2020-06-29T13:45:14Z")
It obviously won’t work while he’s president, but what about afterwards? The only thing that would seem to prevent it would be sovereign immunity (i.e. he did it in his office as President, so he personally is not responsible)–but that’s getting a lot of flak these says. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-has-issued-an-arrest-warrant-for-trump/913655/5 "2020-06-29T13:51:49Z")
I think SDNY called dibs on Trump. It may be a while before Iran gets their turn. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-has-issued-an-arrest-warrant-for-trump/913655/6 "2020-06-29T14:00:11Z")
The US and Iran has no diplomatic relations, so as I understand it there are no official channels available to even ask for that, the request is thus informal. To add you can’t fly US to Iran (one must travel through a different country), & you can’t exchange currency without going to a 3rd party country (which has dimplomatic relations with both). ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-has-issued-an-arrest-warrant-for-trump/913655/7 "2020-06-29T15:22:04Z")
I would be worried if they throw shoes at Trump ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-has-issued-an-arrest-warrant-for-trump/913655/8 "2020-06-29T15:27:56Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > The US and Iran has no diplomatic relations, so as I understand it there are no official channels available to even ask for that, the request is thus informal. The OP points out that Iran has contacted Interpol. So a formal request through official channels has been made. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-has-issued-an-arrest-warrant-for-trump/913655/9 "2020-06-29T15:36:23Z")
Trump screwed the pooch on this one and Iran are understandably pissed off but know there’s nothing they can legally do about it other than to engage in a little propaganda exercise by appealing to the better natures of other countries who already dislike Trump and probably weren’t thrilled about the air strike on Iran, and by portraying themselves as the victims of a whimsical madman. The Iranian government are still terrible people but they ain’t stupid. This is some executive level trolling, right here. And Mister President is not going to like it. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-has-issued-an-arrest-warrant-for-trump/913655/10 "2020-06-29T15:51:21Z")
The airstrike was in Iraq. Ironically, Iran was illegally involving itself in Iraq. > **[Qasem Soleimani](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qasem_Soleimani)** > > Qasem Soleimani (Persian: قاسم سلیمانی, romanized: Qâsem Soleymâni; 11 March 1957\[note 1\] – 3 January 2020) was an Iranian military officer who served in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). From 1998 until his assassination by the United States in 2020, he was the commander of the Quds Force, an IRGC division primarily responsible for extraterritorial and clandestine military operations, and played a key role in the Syrian Civil War through securing Russian intervention. He was desc... > [@](#): > > The strike followed [attacks on the American embassy in Baghdad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_the_United_States_embassy_in_Baghdad) by supporters of an Iran-backed [Iraqi Shia militia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kata%27ib_Hezbollah) and the [2019 K-1 Air Base attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_K-1_Air_Base_attack). He was a combatant and his killing was legal. Just like the targeted killing of Japanese Admiral Yamamoto in 1943. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-has-issued-an-arrest-warrant-for-trump/913655/11 "2020-07-02T10:07:03Z")
The same Iran that Iraq INVITED to discuss deescalation of tensions? That Iran and Iraq? The only way the killing of Soleimani could be comparable to the killing of Yamamoto is if Yamamoto was killed as he landed in Chongqing to discuss peace with China. Iraq has been a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran for over a decade. One of those still receives full-throated support and weapons from the United States while killing Americans. The other one is the “bad guy”. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-has-issued-an-arrest-warrant-for-trump/913655/12 "2020-07-02T10:56:41Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > It obviously won’t work while he’s president, but what about afterwards? The only thing that would seem to prevent it would be sovereign immunity (i.e. he did it in his office as President, so he personally is not responsible)–but that’s getting a lot of flak these says. Putting aside everything else about Trump for this post, no civilized country in the world would honor such an arrest warrant for a former U.S. President. That would go about as far as the United States arresting Tony Blair on some bullshit Iraqi request.