- News code: 1323557
- Source: en.imam-khomeini.ir
The grandson of the late founder founder of the Islamic Republic presented condolences to all family members of martyr General Soleimani.
President Hassan Rouhani earlier said that difficult times would be coming for America as a result of the killing of Soleimani and that the story of Iran as a nation would have been very different without him.
Soleimani, Iraqi military commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and others were killed in a US airstrike on Friday.
Friday's attack on Baghdad airport, authorized by US President Donald Trump, signaled a major escalation in a Middle East "shadow war" between Iran and the United States and American allies, mainly Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Soleimani, a 62-year-old general, was Tehran's most prominent military commander and the architect of its spreading influence in the Middle East.
An elaborate procession to mourn Soleimani, Muhandis and the others began in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone on Saturday.
It will proceed by car to the holy city of Karbala and end in Najaf, another sacred city where Muhandis and the other Iraqis killed will be buried.
Soleimani's body will be transferred to the southwestern Iranian province of Khuzestan that borders Iraq, then on Sunday, January 5, to the holy city of Mashhad in the northeast and from there to the capital Tehran and on to his hometown Kerman in the southeast for burial on Tuesday, January 7, Iranian state media reported.
