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Iran says it seeks to kill Donald Trump

Iran says it seeks to kill Donald Trump
posted onFebruary 25, 2023
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An Iranian general warned his country is still seeking to kill former US president Donald Trump and his secretary of state Mike Pompeo in revenge for assassinating top commander Qasem Soleimani.

“We hope we can kill Trump, Pompeo, (former US general Kenneth) McKenzie and the military commanders who gave the order” to kill Soleimani, General Amirali Hajizadeh, the Guards’ aerospace unit commander, said on television late Friday.

Tehran has repeatedly vowed to avenge the killing of Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ foreign operations, in a US drone strike on Baghdad airport in January 2020.

Trump had ordered the strike in response to a number of attacks on US interests in Iraq that his administration blamed on Iran.

Iran is highly criticized of its drone exportation to Russia that have been used to attack Ukrainians.