The Islamic Revolutionary Guard
Corps (IRGC) says the late Qasem Soleimani, commander of the elite Quds Force,
will be buried in Kerman, his hometown, on Tuesday.
Soleimani was killed in a US
drone strike on Thursday night.
A huge crowd in Iraq’s capital
Baghdad is currently taking part in a funeral procession for the Iranian
military commander.
According to BBC, the gathering
in Baghdad on Saturday marked the beginning of days of mourning for Soleimani.
Iran has already declared three
days of mourning for the murdered general. There have been different reactions
to his death.
After news of his death broke,
some Iraqis celebrated in Baghdad’s streets, accusing him of orchestrating
violent crackdowns on peaceful pro-democracy protests there in recent months
but in Tehran, capital of Iran, hundreds of Iranians took to the streets of
Tehran, the country’s capital, to protest the general’s death.
In a statement posted on IRGC’s
website, the force said a ceremony will be held in Tehran on Monday morning,
and then the pure body of “this soldier of the people and the nation will be
buried in Kerman on Tuesday morning”.
A group of students have
announced that they would hold a vigil for Soleimani at Tehran University on
Saturday before going to Tehran’s Mehrabad airport for the arrival of his
remains.
Soleimani is to be taken to the
Shiite holy city of Mashhad for a ceremony to be held next to Imam Reza’s
shrine.
Soleimani died at 62.
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