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		</div><p>An arrest warrant was issued for outgoing President Donald Trump in connection with the killing of an Iranian general and a powerful Iraqi militia leader last year, Iraq’s judiciary said.</p>
<p>The warrant was issued on Thursday by a judge in Baghdad’s investigative court tasked with probing the Washington-directed drone strike that killed General Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the court’s media office said.</p>
<p>They were killed outside the capital’s airport last January.</p>
<p>Mr al-Muhandis was the deputy leader of the state-sanctioned Popular Mobilisation Forces, an umbrella group composed of an array of militias, including Iran-backed groups, formed to fight the Islamic State group.</p>
<p>Gen Soleimani headed the expeditionary Quds force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps.</p>
<p>The arrest warrant was for a charge of premeditated murder, which carries the death penalty on conviction.</p>
<p>It is unlikely to be carried out but symbolic in the waning days of Mr Trump’s presidency.</p>
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<p>The decision to issue the warrant “was made after the judge recorded the statements of the claimants from the family of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis”, according to a statement from the Supreme Judicial Council.</p>
<p>The investigation into the killings is ongoing, the court said.</p>
<p>The killings sparked a diplomatic crisis and strained US-Iraq ties, drawing the ire of Shiite political politicians who passed a non-binding resolution to pressure the government to oust foreign troops from the country.</p>
<p>Iran-backed groups have since stepped up attacks against the US presence in Iraq, leading to threats by Washington to shut its Baghdad diplomatic mission.</p>
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