Posted on 01/07/2020 4:50:07 AM PST by dennisw
Stampede kills 40 mourners at funeral of Qassem Soleimani and leaves more than 200 injured after huge crowds gathered in his home town ahead of his burial Revolutionary guards chief Hossein Salami told the crowds that Iran would 'set ablaze' places linked to the US Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for a direct retaliation rather than relying on Iranian proxies US officials said they are anticipating a 'major' attack of some type within the next day or two
Forty mourners have been killed and more than 200 injured after a stampede broke out on the final day of Qassem Soleimani's funeral in Iran today.
Iran's farewell to the general descended into chaos after thousands of people thronged to his home town of Kerman, where he was due to be buried later.
With a sea of mourners rushing to see Soleimani's coffin, state media said a stampede had broken out which left 40 people dead and 213 injured.
Footage which circulated online appeared to show emergency workers desperately trying to rescue mourners who had been thrown to the ground and badly hurt during the crush.
Soleimani's burial was later postponed, further prolonging a funeral which was already in its third day amid a huge outpouring of public grief.
Iran today renewed its vows of revenge against America which regarded the general as a terrorist leader and killed him in a drone strike in Iraq last Friday.
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who yesterday wept in public over Soleimani's casket, has ordered his country's forces to retaliate directly against US interests rather than relying on its proxies in the region.
Tehran says it has lined up 13 'revenge scenarios' and revolutionary guards leader Hossein Salami told the crowds today that Iran would 'set ablaze' US allies.
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These things always brings to mind the Ayatollah Khomeini’s funeral, where the unhinged zealous mob, carrying his coffin, bounced his CORPSE right out of his casket!
LOL!!!!
They loved, adored, revered, him SO much, they dump his body on the ground.
NO RESPECT!
These barbarian SAVAGES deserve whatever they get.
Heh Heh :)
That is too bad. Most of them probably did not want to be there in the first place.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
Exactly!!! My old style TV watching comes to mind here again with that 1989 funeral for dirt bag Ayatollah Khomeini getting his casket dumped on the ground in the fanatical frenzy.
The current Iranian dirt bag rulers are trying to re-create all that.
Add this to our tab, please.
It’s like a perpetual motion machine! Mourners will keep killing mourners until there’s no one left. That air strike was more of a stroke of genius than people realize!!!!
‘Does Islam know foolish they look?”
Ask the imam who keeps slapping himself silly!
how does this shit happen! Bunch of uncivilized animals.
“How will they mourn the dead mourners?”
Certainly each one deserves his/her own stampede.
Excellent!!
I wonder if it was open casket?
I think it was more of a sponge in a bucket.
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