The remains of Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian military commander who was assassinated last week in an air strike in Baghdad by the United States, have arrived in his hometown of Kerman for burial later on Tuesday.
Soleimani's remains return to his hometown to be greeted by housands of mourners ahead of a burial later on Tuesday.
State television broadcast live images of thousands of people in the streets of Kerman, many dressed in black, to mourn Soleimani's death.
Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force, was killed along with Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi), an Iran-backed umbrella organisation comprising several militias. Several other people were also killed in Friday's attack.
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