Iran has punished more US officials for Soleimani’s assassination News of Soleimani’s murder

In a symbolic move, Iran has added more U.S. officials to the list that already included Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo.

Tehran, Iran – Iran has imposed sanctions on dozens of U.S. officials, many of them military, and blacklisted those involved in the assassination of Supreme General Qassem Soleimani.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday that 51 Americans had been blacklisted for the “terrorist act” of the assassination of a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and human rights violations.

U.S. Chief of Staff Mark Milley, Central Command Chief Kenneth McKenzie, Pentagon officials, and several U.S. base commanders in the region are among those targeted.

The sanctions are largely symbolic because the nominees do not believe any property could be seized by the Iranian authorities.

A year ago, Iran imposed sanctions Former U.S. President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and eight others were involved in the assassination of Soleimani near Iraq’s Baghdad airport. He also asked to be arrested through the international police organization Interpol.

Saturday’s move comes shortly after the second anniversary of the killing of a drone ordered by Soleimani Trump in a U.S. attack.

Earlier this week, President Ebrahim Raisi said that Trump, Pompeo and others should be tried In a “fair trial”, he warned that otherwise Iran and its allies would seek revenge on the so-called “resistance axis” advocated by Soleiman.

Iran has also called on the UN General Assembly and the Security Council take formal action He also accused them of aiding and abetting the United States and Israel.

On Friday, the IRGC unveiled a series of locally developed missiles that were used in the 2020 attack on two U.S. bases in Iraq as revenge for the assassination of the general.

The Trump administration unilaterally withdrew from the country’s nuclear deal with world powers in 2018 in 2018 and launched a “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran, including harsh sanctions.

Iran and the other signatories to the agreement – France, Russia, China, the United Kingdom and Germany – are now in lively negotiations in Vienna to try to reinstate the agreement. Representatives of the road administration are indirectly involved in the talks.

Iran has demanded the lifting of most US sanctions before withdrawing from its nuclear program, as it has made rapid progress since the sanctions were imposed.