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hundreds of thousands of mourners in Iran, home to The Remains of Qasem Soleimani , The General was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Iraq.

In Ahvaz, where Soleimani served during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88), mourners chanted: "death to America. "

Soleimani was The Architect of Iran's influence throughout the Middle East , and as the country is the second most powerful man in The World .

His murder marked a significant escalation between Iran and the United States.

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, had warned a close personal relationship with Soleimani, has a "heavy revenge" for The Attack , and analysts say that Iran is pursuing the cyber-attacks against the United States or the traditional attacks on U.S. targets or interests in the Middle East .

U.S. President Donald Trump , the approval of The Attack on Soleimani on Friday - a option, refused, the to said of both presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama -risky - on Saturday that.

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, said The Killing of Soleimani was a breach of International Law , and that any orientation of cultural sites would be A War crime.

thousands of black-clad mourners gathered early Sunday morning in The Streets of Ahvaz in the southwest of Iran, where Soleimani body had arrived before dawn.

The channel showed crowds of people gathered in The City of Mollavi square, waving flags and holding aloft portraits of Soleimani, who is seen by many in Iran as a hero because of his role in the Iran-Iraq war and his closeness to the Supreme leader.

Similar scenes were repeated later in The City of Mashhad - the last stage of the Three Days of ceremonies across the country.

In the capital, Tehran, the members of the Parliament chanted "death to America" for a couple of minutes, during a session of The House , the Isna news agency reported.

"Trump, this is to hear The Voice of the Iranian nation," speaker Ali Larijani quoted as Saying .

Soleimani ' s flown to Iran from Iraq, which killed next to the bodies of the five other Iranians in the drone strike, and The Body of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an Iraqi who commanded had been killed, the Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah group and had also been body.

The bodies of Soleimani, al-Muhandis and The Other victims to be flown to Tehran later on Sunday for more funeral events were.

On Monday, the Supreme leader is not expected to pray, about Soleimani, remains at the University of Tehran, followed by a procession through The City . The General 's remains will then be taken to The Holy city of Qom for a ceremony in the run-up to a funeral in his hometown of Kerman on Tuesday.

While there was mourning in Iran Soleimani is death, there is also the celebrations in The Streets in Iraq and In Syria , where The General was instrumental in helping President Bashar al-Assad crush an insurgency.

Iraq is in a difficult position as an ally of both neighboring Iran and the United States. Thousands of US troops in the country to help in the broader fight against the Sunni Islamic state (IS).

supported A variety of Shiite militias in Iraq by Iran, and there are concerns that parts of Iraq's Shia population could have sympathy for Iran, have been alienated, and that the extremists might try to take revenge for both the death of Soleimani and the Kataib Hezbollah leader.

Meanwhile, the Iraqi foreign Ministry has summoned the US Ambassador over drone strike, Saying it considers it a "flagrant violation of the [Iraqi] sovereignty and a breach of the agreement with the US-led coalition".

"The Ministry of foreign Affairs considers that this US illegal military operations as an act of aggression," it added.

Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi speaks to a special session of the Iraqi Parliament, where the deputies are expected to debate after the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country.

Kataib Hezbollah has warned, to stay, the Iraqi security forces "clear from American bases by a distance of not less [than] 1000 m [0. 6 miles reported] as of Sunday evening," al-Mayadeen TV.

The US has noted that its citizens leave Iraq immediately and deployed 3,000 additional troops in the Middle East .

after The Attack on Friday , President Trump told The World he had made the decision to assassinate Soleimani, because The General had been. "Plotting imminent and sinister attacks" on U.S. diplomats and military in Iraq and elsewhere in the region.

The trump administration decided not to notify congressional leaders in advance of The Attack , as the previous President was often the case, and President Obama has been killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011.

The White house sent its formal notification to The Congress , to be held on Saturday, within 48 Hours after an attack, is required by U.S. law.

Nancy Pelosi , the democratic speaker of The House of representatives, said in a statement that the White house triggered the notification of "serious and urgent questions about the timing, the nature and justification of the government's decision to intervene in acts of war against Iran".

Ms Pelosi said, to classify the decision, the entire document "suggests that Congress and The American people will be left in The Dark about our National Security ".

The Surprise strike appeared to be the relations between the United States and some European powers. The French President, Emmanuel Macron called for Iraq's President-in-office to support the President, the sovereignty of the country. Iraq's leadership was not informed by the US before The Strike .

the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had chosen not to Sunday morning made some comment about The Strike cut short his vacation on The Caribbean island of Mustique.

U.S. Secretary of state Mike Pompeo criticized the European response to The Attack .

Speaking of Fox News , he said: "Frankly, The Europeans have been as helpful as I wish it to me that they could be. The British, the French, the German, all need to understand that what we have, what The Americans have to save lives in Europe. "

Source of news: bbc.com