© AFP/Atta KenareCrowd holds pictures of slain Iranian Revolutionary Guards Major General Qasem Soleimani
People flooded the streets of Tehran after Friday prayers in honor of Soleimani and other officials killed during a US airstrike in Iraq's capital.
The mostly black-clad protesters were chanting traditional anti-American slogans like "Down with the US!" while also praising Soleimani as a "hero" of the nation. Many were carrying photos of the killed Quds commander and banners suggesting that the victim was "beloved" by the army.
Some were displaying the words "Harsh revenge" on their banners, a reference to the promise of vengeance by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the army against those responsible for Soleimani's death. The government has declared a three-day period of mourning throughout Iran.
The Pentagon argued the killing was necessary to deter "future Iranian attack plans."
Iranian officials, meanwhile, have branded the airstrike as an "act of international terrorism."
Crowds of people have also been gathering outside Soleimani's house in the central city of Kerman, where the Major General spent his youth and worked before joining the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
Soleimani was killed in a US drone strike at Baghdad's airport, along with Abud Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy head of the Tehran-backed Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) militia and eight other officials.
The Pentagon argued the killing was necessary to deter "future Iranian attack plans."
Iranian officials, meanwhile, have branded the airstrike as an "act of international terrorism."
In the West, they sit in nice offices, have confabs with the rest of their Western counterparts, giving themselves slaps on the back for a job well done.
At the end of service, they receive a big fat pension paid out of the public purse, and what do you know, they end up on the MSM Networks spouting how great the lies they have spilled to public really is......What do you know,,,thanks again to the mind controlled MSM propaganda to the masses, they fall for it.
Simply because they have no interest,.....they are too busy living the reality created for them.