Thousands chant ‘Death to America’ on Qasem Soleimani’s funeral

A huge number of Iraqis, many reciting “death to America”, on Saturday grieved upon the death of top Iranian officer and others killed in a US strike that started fears of a territorial intermediary war among Washington and Tehran.

The killing of Iran’s Major General Qasem Soleimani on Friday was the most sensational acceleration yet in spiralling pressures among Iran and the United States, which vowed to send thousands of additional soldiers to the area.

Political leaders of Iraq and priests went to the mass service to respect 62-year-old Soleimani and the other nine sufferers of the pre-first light assault on Baghdad international air terminal.

US President Donald Trump said he had chosen to “end” Iran’s military driving force to counteract an “inevitable” assault on US ambassadors and troops.

“We made a move the previous evening to stop a war,” he demanded. “We didn’t make a move to begin a war.”

In any case, an enraged Iran has pledged vengeance for the murdering of Soleimani, the central planner of its military activities over the Middle East.

“The reaction for military attack is a military attack only,” Iranian diplomat to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi told CNN, considering the strike a “demonstration of war”.

“By whom, by when, where? That is for the future to observe.”

In the hours after the strike, the US contacted Iran, with which it has had no direct strategic ties for quite a long time.