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Donald Trump with Egypt's President al-Sisi and Saudi King Salman (archive)
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More than three years after the deadly US drone attack on top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, Iran still threatens Donald Trump with retaliation.
Tehran hopes to kill Trump, ex-US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, then-Chief of US Central Command General Kenneth McKenzie and any commanders who gave the order to kill Soleimani, General Amirali Hajizadeh said on Iranian TV.
Soleimani was killed in a drone attack ordered by Trump at Baghdad airport in January 2020.
He commanded the Al-Quds Brigades, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's foreign operations branch, and was considered a hero of the Iran-Iraq War.
Trump said at the time he ordered the drone strike in response to a series of attacks on US bases in Iraq.
Days after the deadly attack on Soleimani, Iranian forces fired missiles at a US military base in Iraq.
Amid heightened tensions, Tehran also accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane.
All 176 people on board died in the crash.
Iranian companies on EU sanctions list
Irrespective of this, it became known on Saturday that the EU is sanctioning Iranian companies.
The reason: your cooperation with Russia.
Companies that supply the Kremlin with combat drones for the war in Ukraine are affected.
The export ban for so-called dual-use goods, which can be used for civil and military purposes, to Russia is being extended.
New items on the list now include electronics, special vehicles, machine parts, spare parts for trucks and engines, antennas, cranes, drones and thermal imaging cameras.
According to British intelligence experts, the Russian military has probably used up its stock of Iranian drones.
This is likely because there have been no reports of the use of small unmanned aerial vehicles in Ukraine since February 15, the Ministry of Defense said in London on Saturday.
However, between late January and early February, the Ukrainian military shot down at least 24 of the Shahed-136 disposable drones.
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