An arrest warrant has been issued for United States President Donald Trump in connection with the killing of an Iranian general and Iraqi militia leader Qassim Soleimani last year.

The warrant was issued by a judge in Baghad’s investigative court that has been probing the Washington-directed drone strike that killed Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis outside Baghdad airport in January 2020.

The arrest warrant was for a charge of premeditated murder, which carries the death penalty on conviction.

According to Australian Broadcasting Corporation News, Al-Muhandis was the deputy leader of the Iraqi 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.

Soleimani headed the expeditionary Quds force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The warrant is unlikely to be executed as an arrest would have to be carried out in Iraq, but the issuing of the warrant is symbolic in the waning days of Trump’s presidency, the news outlet said.

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 Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council.

The investigation into the killings is ongoing, the court said.