Tehran Times - Hundreds of thousands of people are attending the mourning procession for Lieutenant-General Qassem Soleimani in the shrine city of Mashhad .

People from all walks of life, including the�young old, men, and women, have flocked to the city of Mashhad from different cities of Khorassan Razavi province to bid farewell to Soleimani, who�has been called "the General of the Hearts".

The lieutenant general was assassinated in a terrorist attack by the U.S. on Friday morning, 3 January, at Baghdad International airport. Several senior members of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), including Abdu Mahdi al-Muhandis, were also martyred in the vicious attack.