Millions of Iranians have poured out into the streets of Tehran to attend the funeral procession of IRGC Quds Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani as well as Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-command of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units, and several of their comrades who were assassinated in a US attack in Baghdad on Friday.

Huge crowds of people all around the country took the streets on Sunday and Monday to condemn the terror act of the US. They took to streets holding the pictures of Late General Soleimani and flags of Iran, chanting "Down with the US" and "Down with Israel".

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamanei attended and performed the funeral prayer.

On 3 January 2020, amid rising tensions between the United States and Iran, the U.S. launched a drone strike on a convoy traveling near Baghdad International Airport, killing ten passengers, including Iranian major general and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Quds Forces commander Qasem Soleimani, Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces commander Abu Mahdi al- Muhandis, four senior Iranian officers and four Iraqi officers. (ILKHA)