US charges IRGC officer with killing of American citizen in Iraq
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US says Mohammad Reza Nouri orchestrated the killing of Stephen Troell in 2022 as revenge for Qassem Soleimani.
The United States has charged an alleged officer of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) with “terrorism and murder” over the killing of a US citizen in Iraq in 2022.
The Department of Justice released the charges on Friday, accusing Mohammad Reza Nouri of orchestrating the killing of Stephen Troell in Baghdad in retaliation for the US assassination of top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani two years prior.
Troell worked at an English-language institute in Iraq, and at the time of his death, the US embassy said he was in the country in a “private capacity” working with the Iraqi people.
But according to the Justice Department, Nouri “appears to have believed” that Troell was working as an American or Israeli intelligence officer.
The US government has accused Nouri of monitoring Troell and providing weapons, vehicles and safe harbour to the gunmen who killed him.
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