TEHRAN, 09 January 2022, (TON): Iran has added 51 officials to the list of US citizens who have been sanctioned in connection with the assassination of the commander of the Al-Quds Special Forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC, elite units of the Iranian Armed Forces) General Qasem Soleimani and the deputy head of the Iraqi Shiite militia.

Al-Hashd al-Shaabi Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. This was reported on Saturday by the Iranian Mehr agency, citing a statement from the country’s foreign ministry.

The sanctions list was supplemented, in particular, by the head of the US National Security Agency, General Paul Nakasone, the chairman of the Committee of the Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, General Mark Milli, and former US national security adviser Robert O’Brien (served in 2019-2021).

Previously, the list included former US President Donald Trump, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and CIA Director Gina Haspel and other high-ranking American officials, but their exact number was not specified.