TEHRAN, Jan 4 — Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani will be laid to rest Tuesday in his hometown of Kerman as part of three days of ceremonies across the country, the Revolutionary Guards said. The US military killed Soleimani on Friday in an air strike outside Baghdad international...
An Iranian man holds a poster of slain Iranian Revolutionary Guards Major General Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a US air strike in Baghdad, during a mourning prayer in Iran's capital Tehran on January 3, 2020. — AFP pic
The US military killed Soleimani on Friday in an air strike outside Baghdad international airport that shocked the Islamic republic and sparked fears of a new war in the Middle East. Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei swiftly promised “severe revenge” and declared three days of mourning. “A ceremony will next be held in Tehran on Monday morning, and then the pure body of this soldier of the people and the nation will be buried in Kerman on Tuesday morning,” it added.
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