TEHRAN 25 Feb (Online): An Iranian general on Friday warned that his country is still seeking to kill former US president Donald Trump and his secretary of state Mike Pompeo in revenge for assassination of top commander Qasem Soleimani.<\/p>\n
Tehran has repeatedly vowed to avenge the killing of Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps\u2019 foreign operations, in a US drone strike on Baghdad airport in January 2020.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hope we can kill Trump, Pompeo, [former US general Kenneth] McKenzie and the military commanders who gave the order\u201d to kill Soleimani, General Amirali Hajizadeh, the Guards\u2019 aerospace unit commander, said on television late on Friday.<\/p>\n
Trump had ordered the strike in response to a number of attacks on US interests in Iraq that his administration blamed on Iran.<\/p>\n
Days later, Iran retaliated by by firing missiles at a US airbase in Iraq that housed US troops. None were killed, but Washington said dozens suffered traumatic brain damage.<\/p>\n
The United States and its allies have repeatedly expressed concerns about Iran\u2019s ballistic missile programme as well as its \u201cdestabilising\u201d role in the Middle East.<\/p>\n
In his televised remarks, Hajizadeh said Iran was \u201cnow able to hit American ships at a distance of 2,000 kilometres\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have set this limit of 2,000km out of respect for the Europeans and we hope that the Europeans show themselves worthy of this respect,\u201d the Iranian general said.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Iranian state television aired a video of what it said was a newly unveiled \u201cPaveh cruise missile with a range of 1,650km\u201d developed by the Guards.<\/p>\n
The official broadcaster reported on Friday that Iran was likely to provide Syria with the 15-Khordad surface-to-air missile system to \u201creinforce\u201d its defensive capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TEHRAN 25 Feb (Online): An Iranian general on Friday warned that his country is still seeking to kill former US president Donald Trump and his secretary of state Mike Pompeo in revenge for assassination of top commander Qasem Soleimani. Tehran has repeatedly vowed to avenge […]<\/p>\n
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