{"id":101132,"date":"2020-01-07T12:38:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T02:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=101132"},"modified":"2020-01-07T12:38:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T02:38:16","slug":"huge-crowds-pack-tehran-for-soleimanis-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/huge-crowds-pack-tehran-for-soleimanis-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge crowds pack Tehran for Soleimani\u2019s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei led prayers and at one point was seen weeping<br \/>\nOnline<br \/>\nTehran<br \/>\nMourners packed the streets of the Iranian capital Tehran for the funeral of the slain Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani.<br \/>\nSoleimani was assassinated in a US drone strike in Iraq on Friday on the orders of President Donald Trump.<br \/>\nIran\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei led prayers and at one point was seen weeping.<br \/>\nIran has vowed severe revenge for the death of Soleimani and on Sunday pulled back from the 2015 nuclear accord.<br \/>\nSoleimani, 62, spearheaded Iranian military operations in the Middle East, and was regarded as a terrorist by the US. President Trump said Soleimani was \u201cplotting imminent and sinister attacks\u201d on US diplomats and military personnel in Iraq and elsewhere in the region.<br \/>\nState television showed large crowds in Tehran for Soleimani\u2019s funeral.<br \/>\nPeople could be seen crying while others clutched pictures of the late commander. \u201cDeath to America\u201d chants were heard.<br \/>\nHis daughter Zeinab Soleimani warned the US it faces a \u201cdark day\u201d for the killing. \u201cCrazy Trump, don\u2019t think that everything is over with my father\u2019s martyrdom,\u201d she said.<br \/>\nFollowing Monday\u2019s funeral, the general\u2019s remains will then be taken to Qom, one of the centres of Shia Islam, for a ceremony ahead of a funeral in his hometown of Kerman on Tuesday.<br \/>\nWhen visiting Soleimani\u2019s family members at their house in Tehran, President Rouhani said: \u201cThe Americans really did not realise what grave error they have committed.<br \/>\n\u201cRevenge for his blood will be exacted on that day when the filthy hands of America will be cut off forever from the region.\u201d<br \/>\nOver the weekend, Trump said that the US would strike back at Iran in the event of retaliation for Soleimani\u2019s death, \u201cperhaps in a disproportionate manner\u201d.<br \/>\nHe said the US was ready to strike 52 Iranian sites and \u201cwill strike very fast and very hard\u201d if Tehran attacks Americans or US assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei led prayers and at one point was seen weeping Online Tehran Mourners packed the streets of the Iranian capital Tehran for the funeral of the slain Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani. 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