The Gulf

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The coffins of Soleimani and Muhandis

were killed and carried out of Karbala, a series of explosions rocked Baghdad-area hours after a large funeral procession for a top Iranian general by a U.S. Air Strike on Friday.

A projectile, the Green Zone , met in the vicinity of the U.S. Embassy, and several more were forces in the North of Iraq, dismissed the town of Balad air base, which houses the U.S. military.

no One was hurt, said during the attacks, the Iraqi security circles.

" No group has said it was behind the development. Pro-Iranian activists have been blamed for other recent attacks.

the Iranian leaders have vowed to take revenge on The Killing of Qasem Soleimani , who is regarded as a terrorist by the United States .

President Trump warned on Twitter that the U.S. "targeting," 52 Iranian sites and.

on Saturday The Funeral procession through Baghdad and the Iraqi Shiite Muslim Holy cities before The Return of Soleimani, remains Iran.

the Iraqis, but also the grief over the death of " Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an Iraqi were the ones who killed under the command of the Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah group and was, together with Soleimani.

In another development, The Group A Warning has to be issued to the Iraqi security forces "clear from American bases in a distance of not less [than] 1,000 m (0. 6 km) from Sunday evening," al-Mayadeen TV reported.

In response to the Iranian threats of revenge, she has US. sent to 3,000 troops in the Middle East and advised its citizens to leave the country

What happens in the new attacks?

said at least One rocket or grenade hit Celebration square in the Green Zone , while another Jadria area, the Iraqi security circles exploded in The City .

After two rockets Balad air base, monitoring-made drones sent, The Source , the AFP news Agency reported.

How the Iraqi stage of The Funeral ?

Waving Iraqi and militia flags and chanting "death to America", the mourners walked behind the coffins of Al Muthana Airport at the gates of the Green Zone on Saturday.

Some of the mourners, instead of carried portraits of Soleimani, while the other portraits of Iran, the Supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei .

Later, The Procession left for The Holy cities of Karbala and Najaf.

Some of the Iraqis, conversely, celebrated in Baghdad, The Streets , the news of Soleimani death. He was accused of orchestrating the violent crackdown on peaceful pro-democracy protests there in recent months.

reports say that the bodies of Soleimani, and four other Iranians killed in the Air Strike in the night on Sunday to Iran, instead of the declared Three Days of mourning for the murdered general, His funeral in Iran on Tuesday.

Iran's retribution is sure, but when, where and how. Now the priority for the cement-Qasem Soleimani , is to ensure the status as a national hero, in order that it remains as powerful In Death as in life.

Elaborate plans for his funeral have been extended, a mixture of carefully prepared ceremony, with expressions of sorrow fill The Streets . It starts in Baghdad, where he died, and the life, where so much of its heritage.

from there, his travels in The Holy city of Mashhad, Iran remains in his hometown of Kerman And Then to Tehran where the Supreme leader, the presidency of the last Prayers - a rare honour, to send another signal. Ayatollah Khamenei and his faithful officer, General, Lieutenant promoted.

more importantly, his martyrdom is, to collect, to draw a rival, angered by its status and the Iranians, who insulted his expensive foreign adventures. Iranian leaders hope that his killing will unite a nation, such as it is staring at is a much more uncertain future.

what is the reaction of Iran to The Assassination ?

have committed their guide, to revenge the death of the husband, the Quds Force , an elite unit of the Iranian revolutionary guards (IRGC).

Soleimani, 62, was widely considered the second most powerful figure in Iran after Ayatollah Khamenei. The Quds Force reports directly to the ayatollah, and Soleimani, was celebrated as a heroic national figure.

visit Soleimani members of the family in their house in Tehran, said the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani : "the revenge for The Blood of the pleasures on this day, as the dirty hands of America will be cut off for ever from the region. "

One of Soleimani's daughters, asked The President , as The Blood of your father be avenged

Ayatollah Khamenei, had previously promised that revenge would be "powerful", while a senior corps of the Islamic revolutionary guards, general, Gholamali Abuhamzeh, raised the prospect of attacks on US warships in The Gulf .

The Pentagon confirmed to have been killed in the U. S. armed forces Soleimani

On a March in Tehran on Saturday, a demonstrator, told Reuters: "[Soleimani] was A Man who - unlike many of our officers - was an enemy of our enemies, and treated as Our Own people very well. Therefore, he was very popular. So, the only thing we want, our statesmen and our Supreme leader. in order to take revenge. "

Simmering U.S. -Iranian hostilities quickly escalated last week after the United States carried out air strikes in Iraq and Syria against the Kataib Hezbollah, who were killed the USA made responsible for an earlier rocket attack on an American civilian contractor. Pro-Iranian militia attacked the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad in response.

In a letter to the UN security Council responded to The Strike on Soleimani, Iran's UN Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi said that Iran has The Right to self-defense, reserves The Right under International Law . Analysts said Iran is ready to cyber-could-hit attacks against the United States , or of the attempt of the U. S. military objectives or interests in the Middle East .

Why did the US kill Soleimani?

US President Donald Trump accused "The Number One terrorist somewhere in The World ," "plotting, threatening, and sinister attacks on American diplomats and military".

Soleimani convoy was reduced to burning wreckage were given outside of Baghdad International Airport

But no details of the allegedly planned attacks, and New York Times correspondent, quoted two unnamed U.S. officials, that the evidence for such an act was "razor-sharp".

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Iranian counterpart, Javad Zarif, that the US was The Killing of Soleimani, an abuse of military power, while the Russian Foreign Minister , Sergei Lavrov, also on the phone said that Mr. Zarif, The Killing of "roughly the norms of International Law is violated".

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the British Minister of defense, Ben Wallace is also known that two British ships of war continued escort duties and transported in the Strait of Hormuz - a narrow shipping route in The Gulf through which a fifth of The World 's oil.

In a statement, he urged all parties to "de-escalate The Situation ", and added: "according to the International Law of the United States is entitled to defend itself against those who pose a threat to your citizens. "

On Saturday, the White house, the U.S. Congress sent a formal notice of Friday's drone Strike , in accordance with the 1973 U.S. Law that States the administration must commit itself to alert Congress within 48 Hours of armed forces to immediate or Imminent Threat of military action.

It was expected, in order to clarify The Authority was established, under which The Strike and the expected nature and duration of the military involvement. The message is classified.

Nancy Pelosi , The Top congressional Democrat, said to intervene that it "calls for serious and urgent questions about the timing, the nature and justification of the decision of the government, in acts of war against Iran".

How Iraq fit into this?

Iran is supporting a variety of Shiite militias in the neighboring country of Iraq. Soleimani had just arrived at the airport of Baghdad, and traveled in a convoy in addition to the officers of such militia, if their cars several U.S. missiles were.

Iraq is currently in a difficult situation, as an ally of Iran and the United States . To help thousands of US troops in the country, in the broader fight against the Sunni Islamic state (IS) group, but in Iraq, the government stressed that the United States has acted, under the terms and conditions of this agreement.

Prime Minister , Adel Abdul Mahdi, would be like a missile Strike as a "blatant violation of Iraq announced of sovereignty and a flagrant attack on The Nation ," and the Iraq Parliament, it would hold an emergency meeting on Sunday .

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Source of news: bbc.com