Kazem Gharib Abadi, Vice-President of the Judiciary for International Affairs and Secretary-General of Iran's High Council for Human Rights, announced that Tehran will host the second round of meetings of the Iranian-Iraqi Joint Investigation Committee on the assassination of Major General Qassem Soleimani and his companions.

In a press statement on Sunday, Gharib Abadi that this round will last for two days and will include the participation of senior judicial officials from Iran and Iraq.

He also pointed out that the meeting will discuss the investigation's latest findings, including the role of the US in the assassination.

It is noteworthy that the Iranian-Iraqi committee announced that it has taken all possible judicial and legal measures to prosecute the perpetrators involved in the assassination of Soleimani and Al-Muhandis.

It also said it will continue to strengthen bilateral cooperation to complete the ongoing judicial investigations between the two countries.

In January 2020, the investigation committee set up by the Iraqi Ministry of Interior to investigate the case recommended terminating the services of the British security company GRS, following Tehran's Prosecutor General Ali Al-Qasi Mehr confirming that the reports revealed the involvement of a British company in the assassination.

On January 3, 2020, the commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution's Guards Corps, Major General Qassem Soleimani, and the deputy commander of the Popular Mobilization Forces, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, were martyred by a US missile strike near Baghdad International Airport.