Iran has issued an arrest warrant and asked Interpol for help in detaining President Donald Trump and dozens of others it believes carried out the drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad, a local prosecutor reportedly said Monday. Tehran prosecutor Ali Alqasimehr said Trump and more than 30 others whom Iran accuses of involvement in the January 3 strike that killed General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad face 'murder and terrorism charges,' the state-run IRNA news agency reported. After receiving a request, Interpol meets by committee and discusses whether or not to share the information with its member states. The U.S. killed Soleimani, who oversaw the Revolutionary Guard's expeditionary Quds Force, and others in the January strike near Baghdad International Airport. Trump has said Soleimani was planning to 'blow up' the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.

Source: Daily Mail June 29, 2020 11:40 UTC