Mourners flood Iran city in homage to Soleimani killed by US
Mourners were seen weeping and holding up posters of Soleimani as a truck carrying his coffin moved through the crowds
Thousands of mourners gathered in the Iranian city of Ahvaz on Sunday (January 5), as the body of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in Iraq in a U.S. military strike, was returned.
Mourners were seen weeping and holding up posters of Soleimani as a truck carrying his coffin moved through the crowds.
Soleimani, the architect of Tehran's overseas clandestine and military operations as head of the Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, was killed on Friday in a U.S. drone strike on his convoy at Baghdad airport.
While many Iranians have rallied in recent days to show grief over the death of Soleimani, regarded as the country's second most powerful figure after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, others worry his death might push the country to war with a superpower.
