50 mourners have been killed and more than 200 were injured in a stampede that broke out at the funeral ceremony for slain Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in the eastern city of Kerman . The head of forensic medicine in Kerman, Abas Amian, said authorities had identified 50 people who were killed in the crush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The head of Iran’s Emergency Center Hossein Kolivand said hundreds of people had been injured. Many thousands of mourners packed the streets of the late general’s home town ahead of his burial following similar displays of mass mourning in Tehran on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the head of the elite Quds Force, a branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Soleimani had for years wielded his country’s influence across the wider Middle East, strengthening Shia militias from Lebanon to Iraq and coming to the aid of Tehran’s allies, like Bashar Al Assad in Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Iranian lawmakers on Tuesday voted to designate the Pentagon and the US Army as a terrorist organization. Iran had previously only considered the US Central Command as a terrorist organization a measure that came in response to Washington’s designation of the IRGC as a terror group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The Iranian people will not pardon him.” There were cries of “Death to America” when lawmakers approved a financial package worth $223 million to the IRGC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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