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Iranian general says his country is still seeking to kill Trump

The regime is reportedly still pursuing revenge on the former US President who ordered a top Iranian commander to be assassinated in 2020.

AN IRANIAN GENERAL had warned that 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.

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.

“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 last night.

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

Days later, Iran retaliated by firing missiles at a US airbase in Iraq that housed US 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)”.

“We have set this limit of 2,000 kilometres out of respect for the Europeans and we hope that the Europeans show themselves worthy of this respect,” the Iranian general said.

Today Iranian state television aired a video of what it said was a newly unveiled “Paveh cruise missile with a range of 1,650 kilometres (1,025 miles)” developed by the Guards.

The official broadcaster reported on yesterday that Iran was likely to provide Syria with the 15-Khordad surface-to-air missile system to “reinforce” its defensive capabilities.

 – © AFP 2023

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    Mute IrishGravyTrain
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    Feb 18th 2016, 10:07 PM

    Do all the toe rags end up in spain.

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    Feb 18th 2016, 11:47 PM

    fun in the sun (with a gun) sorry hun for the pun

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    Feb 19th 2016, 12:03 AM

    U ok Hun?

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    Feb 19th 2016, 12:52 AM

    Malaya as in Malaysia ? Off the topic

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    Feb 18th 2016, 10:04 PM

    They can keep her.

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    Feb 18th 2016, 10:15 PM

    Mad how they’re all in Marbella and Porto Banus. Torremolinos amd Benalmadema are now becoming the nicer safer resorts.

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    Feb 18th 2016, 10:28 PM

    All of the Irish trash over in Spain, that’s open borders for you, the Spanish should have stricter border controls and stop Irish Christians going over there and becoming involved in criminality and drug-dealing, if the Irish can’t respect the local laws and customs they should be shipped back to where they came from. Check out this video of Irish Christians bringing their debauched lifestyle to the Costa del Sol in Spain, is this what we want to happen in our country with open borders? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9p7Ur15IdA

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    Feb 18th 2016, 10:41 PM

    That sounds fair enough, dude.

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    Mute Meehawwl O'Buachailla
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    Feb 18th 2016, 10:44 PM

    Excellent stuff Dick. Top marks.

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    Feb 18th 2016, 11:36 PM

    Breaking my resolve not to comment but love this from Richard!

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    Feb 19th 2016, 12:23 AM

    Spoh on Richard if Joe Stalin was still around the drug pushing parasites wouldn’t have an easy life he said one time if a man is causing problems in a community the answer is to put that man to sleep, no man no problem, so simple, yet I’m hearing on radio every day where decent people are selling their homes to pay off debt to these parasites and where the gardai tell them there’s nothing they can do to help. Unbelievible, if Michael Collins or any of those men who stood with him were around today they wouldn’t hesitate to put those parasites to sleep and they certainly wouldn’t be cowed by PC

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    Feb 20th 2016, 12:30 AM

    You’re judging your justice on a dead man. The day has changed. The forces who wish to act are constrained by the people who harp on about the past. They elevate the past while living in it and denegrate the present. You can’t have your cake and shit on it at the same time.

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    Feb 18th 2016, 10:58 PM

    Good……work together and get them all. Women incl

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    Feb 19th 2016, 10:28 AM

    There is clearly a cultural problem with the Irish, they are constantly involved violent crimes. Europe should close the borders to the Irish until they learn to adhere to European culture.

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