Iran still seeking to kill Trump, general says
The Hindu
Tehran has repeatedly vowed to avenge the killing of Soleimani.
An Iranian general warned his country is still seeking to kill former U.S. president Donald Trump and his secretary of state Mike Pompeo in revenge for assassinating top commander Qasem Soleimani.
Tehran has repeatedly vowed to avenge the killing of Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' foreign operations, in a U.S. drone strike on Baghdad airport in January 2020.
"We hope we can kill Trump, Pompeo, (former U.S. 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.
Mr. Trump had ordered the strike in response to a number of attacks on U.S. interests in Iraq that his administration blamed on Iran.
Days later, Iran retaliated by firing missiles at a U.S. airbase in Iraq that housed U.S. troops. None were killed, but Washington said dozens suffered traumatic brain damage.
The United States and its allies have repeatedly expressed concerns about Iran's ballistic missile programme as well as its "destabilising" role in the Middle East.
In his televised remarks, Hajizadeh said Iran was "now able to hit American ships at a distance of 2,000 kilometres (1,243 miles)".
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