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Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump over killing of top commander Qasem Soleimani

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People gather to protest the US air strike in Iraq that killed Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, who headed Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ elite Quds force in Sanaa, Yemen on January 6, 2020.

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Iran’s government has issued an arrest warrant for U.S. President Donald Trump over the killing of its top commander Qasem Soleimani in January, the country’s semi-official Fars news agency reported Monday.

Tehran is also reportedly asking Interpol for help, according to Fars. Trump, however, is in no danger to be arrested, according to the Associated Press.

Soleimani led Iran’s Quds Force, the foreign operations wing of the elite paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The Trump administration labeled him a terrorist, and Washington deemed him responsible for the deaths of hundreds of U.S. troops in Iraq.

The 62-year-old Soleimani was killed in a drone strike directed by Trump in early January while in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, in a move that sent regional tensions and oil prices surging and set off a retaliatory attack by Iran and its proxies on Iraqi bases housing U.S. troops.  

The Trump administration has so far not responded to Iran’s announcement.

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