TEHERAN: Thousands of mourners accompanied a casket carrying the remains of the slain Gen. Qassem Soleimani through two major Iranian cities Sunday as part of a grand funeral procession across the Islamic Republic amid soaring tensions between Iran and the US.
President Donald Trump has threatened to bomb 52 sites in Iran if it retaliates by attacking Americans.
Iran has promised"harsh revenge" for the US attack, which shocked Iranians across all political lines. Many saw Soleimani as a pillar of the Islamic Republic at a moment when it is beset by US sanctions and recent anti-government protests. Trump wrote on Twitter afterward that the U.S. had already"targeted 52 Iranian sites , some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture.”The 1954 Hague Convention, of which the US is a party, bars any military from"direct hostilities against cultural property." However, such sites can be targeted if they have been re-purposed and turned into a legitimate"military objective," according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The caskets then moved slowly through streets choked with mourners wearing black, beating their chests and carrying posters with Soleimani's portrait. Demonstrators also carried red Shiite flags, which traditionally both symbolize the spilled blood of someone unjustly killed and call for their deaths to avenged.
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