TEHRAN –- Iranian officials should still pursue the case of Saddam Hussein’s crimes against the Iranian people at international tribunals, political analyst Mohammad Mazaheri said here on Wednesday.

The former Iraqi dictator attacked Iran in 1980, sparking an eight-year war that left over one million dead.

“With the execution of Saddam, the Iranian people’s rights were trampled upon,” Mazaheri told the Mehr News Agency.

Saddam was hanged for crimes against humanity on December 30 after 14 months on trial.

Most political experts believe that justice was not served with the execution of Saddam for the murder of 148 people in Dujail, he said.

If Saddam had been tried by an impartial court, various aspects of his countless crimes against Iran and his collaboration with the United States and certain regional countries in those offences would have been revealed, he opined.

The U.S. is exacerbating the security situation, with the support of certain hard-line and warmonger Iraqi groups, in order to create the impression that its military presence is indispensable for maintaining security in Iraq, he added.