Thousands of Iraqis chanted “Death to America” as they joined the funeral procession for General Qassem Soleimani.
People attend a protest against the killing of Qasem Soleimani in Tehran. People attend a protest against the killing of Qasem Soleimani in Tehran. THOUSANDS OF MOURNERS have gathered for a funeral procession through Iraq’s capital Baghdad for Iran’s top general and other militants killed in a US airstrike.
The convoy snaked its way through a sea of black-clad mourners, some of whom carried portraits of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Some also carried Iraqi flags and the flags of Iran-backed militias that are fiercely loyal to General Soleimani. General Soleimani was the head of Iran’s elite Quds force and mastermind of its regional security strategy.
In 2012, Soleimani helped bolster the Syrian government, a key Iranian ally, during the Syrian Civil War, particularly in its operations against Isis and its offshoots. Soleimani also assisted in the command of combined Iraqi government and Shia militia forces that advanced against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in 2014-2015.Related Read 03.01.
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