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Iran cancels Soleimani ceremony in Tehran after huge turnout in second city Mashhad

Revolutionary Guards urge people to attend a ceremony scheduled to take place at Tehran University on Monday

Afp January 05, 2020

iranians gather in the northeastern city of mashhad to pay homage to slain major general qasem soleimani after he was killed in a us strike in baghdad on january 5 2020 photo afp

Iranians gather in the northeastern city of Mashhad to pay homage to slain major general Qasem Soleimani, after he was killed in a US strike in Baghdad, on January 5, 2020. PHOTO: AFP

TEHRAN: Iran has cancelled a Tehran ceremony on Sunday night to honour slain general Qasem Soleimani due to an overwhelming turnout by mourners in second city Mashhad, the Revolutionary Guards said.

People attend a funeral procession for Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force, and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who were killed in an air strike at Baghdad airport, in Ahvaz, Iran January 5, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

People attend a funeral procession for Soleimani in Ahvaz, Iran. PHOTO: REUTERS

Qaseem Soleimani's body returned to Iran

"Considering the glorious, intense and million-man presence of the revolutionary people of Mashhad in the ceremony to bid farewell to Islam and Iran's great general Qasem Soleimani and since the program is still continuing... it is not possible to hold the event in Tehran," the Guards said.

PHOTO: REUTERS

PHOTO: REUTERS

The statement called on people to attend a ceremony scheduled to take place at Tehran University on Monday.

PHOTO: REUTERS

PHOTO: REUTERS

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