In Pictures: Tehran holds huge funeral procession for martyred commanders
Large crowds of mourners attend a funeral procession in Tehran for IRGC Quds Commander General Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi PMU commander Mahdi al-Muhandis.
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The streets of Tehran are packed with mourners who pay homage to Qassem Soleimani and Mahdi al-Muhandis, Iranian and Iraqi commanders killed in a recent US strike, on January 6, 2020.
Huge crowds of people 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.