Millions of Lovers Pack Tehran Streets to Pay Homage to Martyr Soleimani

By Staff, Agencies

Millions of Iranian mourners packed the streets of Tehran to pay homage to the Middle East's most prominent anti-terror commander martyr General Qassem Soleimani who was assassinated on US President Donald Trump's order Friday.

A huge sea of lovers, streaming from all the adjoining streets, descended on the iconic Engelab [Revolution] Square in central Tehran early Monday morning.

They carried portraits of the national hero whose assassination in a US airstrike at Baghdad airport has generated an outpouring of anger and patriotism across Iran and elsewhere.

A correspondent for the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting [IRIB] said he has not seen such a crowd in 20 years in Tehran, where important occasions usually draw people in millions.

General Soleimani's daughter, Zeinab, addressed the crowd, saying "the name Haj Qassem Soleimani is now shaking the nest of Zionism, Takfirism, and the order of hegemony."

"America and Zionism should know that my father's martyrdom has awakened more human instincts on the resistance front. It will make life a nightmare for them and shatter their spider houses," she said.

The US assassination of the top Iranian commander along with deputy head of Iraq's anti-terror Popular Mobilization Units Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and eight others has sent shock waves across the world.

It has forged greater unity in the region against US interventionism, with insistent calls for revenge being echoed across the Muslim world.

Both Soleimani and Abu Mahdi played a key role in defeating Daesh [the Arabic acronym for terrorist ‘ISIS/ISIL’ group] which at its peak, threatened a complete take-over of Iraq and Syria.