AVENGE DEATH

Slain Iranian commander's daughter says US faces "dark day"

"Crazy Trump, don't think that everything is over with my father's martyrdom."

In Summary

• Zeinab Soleimani told a huge crowd on Monday at his funeral ceremony in Tehran that the United States and its ally Israel faced a "dark day" for his death.

Lebanon's Hezbollah supporters chant slogans during a funeral ceremony rally to mourn Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force, who was killed in an air strike at Baghdad airport, in Beirut's suburbs, Lebanon, January 5, 2020.
Lebanon's Hezbollah supporters chant slogans during a funeral ceremony rally to mourn Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force, who was killed in an air strike at Baghdad airport, in Beirut's suburbs, Lebanon, January 5, 2020.
Image: REUTERS/Aziz Taher

The daughter of the slain commander of Iran's Quds Force told a huge crowd on Monday at his funeral ceremony in Tehran that the United States and its ally Israel faced a "dark day" for his death.

"Crazy Trump, don't think that everything is over with my father's martyrdom," Zeinab Soleimani said in an address broadcast on state television, after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered an airstrike on Friday that killed General Qassem Soleimani.

(Reporting by Dubai Newsroom Editing by Edmund Blair)

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