The military commander was killed alongside Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias in Iraq known as the PMF. It comes after Soleimani's body was transported through the Iranian city of Mashhad earlier today as part of a grand funeral procession across the Islamic Republic. (Image: airlivenet/Twitter)Mourners crowded around military personnel in Mashad unloading Soleimani's casket covered with an Iranian flag from a plane at Ahvaz International Airport in Tehran. Live footage aired on state TV showed mourners wearing black and beating their chests as they walked through the streets. Crowds furiously chanted 'Death to America' as they paraded the slain military commander.

Source: Daily Mirror January 05, 2020 23:26 UTC