Hawzah News Agency - (Berlin - Germany) - Eight German lawmakers from the country's Left Party have filed a criminal complaint against German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her government for complicity in US assassination of Iran's General Qassem Soleimani.

The complaint claims that the US Air force's Ramstein base in western Germany, believed to be used to control drones over Africa and the Middle East, was part of the operation that led to the general's assassination.

“The control signals for the drone attack can only have been transmitted via a satellite relay station on German territory, the US airbase in Ramstein,” MP Alexander Neu said in a statement.

“We cannot continue to accept that the federal government itself breaks international law by enabling and supporting the illegal US drone war,” Neu added.

The Left Party accused the Merkel government of “abetting" the US operation by its "negligence" on the matter.

A copy of the complaint posted on the website of Neu specifically targets Merkel along with Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer and “other members of the federal government”.

In the early hours of January 3, General Soleimani was assassinated by a US drone strike shortly after arriving at Baghdad International Airport on a formal visit to the country.