Iran and its allies continued to threatenrevenge yesterday as a rocket exploded near the US embassy in Baghdad following the killing of an Iranian leader by American forces.<\/p>\n
Irans ambassador to the United Nations has warned the US has started a military war by an act of terror with the killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, as Donald Trump claimed he ordered the Quds Force generals death to prevent war rather than provoke it.<\/p>\n
The countrys UN diplomat declared Iran has to act, and we will act, while UN secretary general Antonio Guterres joined global calls for de-escalation as he cautioned the world cannot afford another Gulf War.<\/p>\n
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Meanwhile, US secretary of state Mike Pompeo criticised allies, including the UK, for not backing the airstrike. But former UK foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt criticised the action, calling it extreme.<\/p>\n
Natohas suspended ongoing efforts to fight Isis in Iraqamid demands by Iran and its allies for revenge against the US.<\/p>\n
Thousands of supporters of Soleimani and Iraqi Shia militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes gathered in Tehran, Baghdad and other cities to mourn the two men, who were killed in a US airstrike outside the Iraqi capital on Friday and whose funerals took place in Baghdad yesterday.<\/p>\n
Yesterday Irans supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared three days of mourning, a move followed by the Iraqi prime minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, who declared three days of national mourning in Iraq.<\/p>\n
A witness in Tehran described shops putting up portraits ofSoleimaniand funereal banners being hung in the citys neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n
Hes seen as a guy who has fought terrorists and brought security for Iranians at home, saidAbas Aslani, a researcher at the Centre for Middle East Strategic Studies in Tehran, in a phone call from the Iranian capital.<\/p>\n
Several Iranian officials reiterated longstanding warningson Saturday that Tehran could target US ships in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway through which a significant chunk of the worlds energy reserves travel, with one noting that Irans missiles could reach Israel.<\/p>\n
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This photo released by the Iraqi Prime Minister Press Office shows a burning vehicle at the Baghdad International Airport following an airstrike in Baghdad, Iraq, early Friday 3 January<\/p>\n
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The wreckage of the car in which general Soleimani was travelling when a targeted US airstrike struck outside Baghdad International Airport on 3 January<\/p>\n
Ahmad Al Mukhtar via Reuters<\/p>\n
Demonstrators burn the US and British flags during a protest in Tehran after general Soleimani was killed in a targeted airstrike by American forces<\/p>\n
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A burning vehicle at the Baghdad International Airport following an airstrike. The Pentagon said Thursday that the US military has killed general Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force, at the direction of Donald Trump<\/p>\n
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Protesters burn Israeli and US flags as thousands of Iranians take to the streets to mourn the death of general Soleimani at the hands of America<\/p>\n
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Supporters of Donald Trump pray at an 'Evangelicals for Trump' campaign event held on the day following the killing of general Soleimani. At the event, the president praised the \"flawless strike that eliminated the terrorist ringleader\"<\/p>\n
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A huge procession of mourners gather in Baghdad for the funeral of general Soleimani on 4 January<\/p>\n
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Thousands of Iranians take to the streets to mourn the death of Soleimani during an anti-US demonstration to condemn the killing of Soleimani, after Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran<\/p>\n
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Iraqis perform a mourning prayer for slain major general Qasem Soleimani of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards at the Great Mosque of Kufa<\/p>\n
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A billboard reading 'Death to America and Israel', installed by Iran-backed shiite armed groups at a street in Jadriyah district in Baghdad, Iraq<\/p>\n
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A handout picture provided by the office of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him visiting the family of Soleiman<\/p>\n
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Thousands of Iranians take to the streets in Tehran<\/p>\n
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Pakistani Shiite Muslims burn a mock of a US flag as they hold pictures of General Qasem Soleimani during a protest against the USA, outside the US Consulate in Lahore, Pakistan<\/p>\n
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Iran's Ambassador to Lebanon Mohammed Jalal Feiruznia, looks to a portrait of Soleimani, as he receives condolences at the Iranian embassy, in Beirut, Lebanon<\/p>\n
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People make their way on the street while a screen on the wall of a cinema shows a portrait Soleimani in Tehran<\/p>\n
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Aziz Asmar, one of two Syrian painters who completed a mural following the killing of Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani poses next to his creation in the rebel-held Syrian town of Dana in the northwestern province of Idlib<\/p>\n
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A demonstration in Tehran<\/p>\n
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An anti-US demonstration to condemn the killing of Soleimani, after Friday prayers in Tehran<\/p>\n
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Mujtaba al-Husseini, the representative of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, delivers a speech in the holy shrine city of Najaf <\/p>\n
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Pakistani Shiite Muslims burn a mock of a US and Israeli flags as they hold pictures of General Qasem Soleimani during a protest against the USA, outside the US Consulate in Lahore, Pakistan<\/p>\n
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Protesters demonstrate in Tehran<\/p>\n
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Pakistani Shi'ite Muslims hold pictures of General Qasem Soleimani during a protest against the USA, in Peshawar, Pakistan<\/p>\n
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Protesters, holding a photograph of the leader of the People's Mujahedin of Iran Massoud Rajavi, outside Downing Street in London <\/p>\n
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Protesters burn a US flag in Tehran<\/p>\n
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A Syrian man offers sweets to children to mark the killing<\/p>\n
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Iranian worshippers attend a mourning prayer for Soleimani in Iran's capital Tehran<\/p>\n
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Kashmiri Shiite Muslims shout anti American and anti Israel slogans during a protest <\/p>\n
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Iranian worshipers chant slogans during Friday prayers <\/p>\n
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A protest against the USA, in Islamabad, Pakistan<\/p>\n
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Iranians burn a US flag in Tehran<\/p>\n
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Supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in Germany (NWRI) protest outside Iran's embassy in Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n
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Supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in Germany (NWRI) protest outside Iran's embassy in Berlin<\/p>\n
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Iranian worshippers in Tehran<\/p>\n
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Vehicles of the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) patrol a road in the southern Lebanese town of Kfar Kila near the border with Israel. Following morning's killing of Major General Qasem Soleimani, Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement called for the missile strike by Israel's closest ally, to be avenged<\/p>\n
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Iranian women take to the streets in Tehran<\/p>\n
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This photo released by the Iraqi Prime Minister Press Office shows a burning vehicle at the Baghdad International Airport following an airstrike in Baghdad, Iraq, early Friday 3 January<\/p>\n
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The wreckage of the car in which general Soleimani was travelling when a targeted US airstrike struck outside Baghdad International Airport on 3 January<\/p>\n
Ahmad Al Mukhtar via Reuters<\/p>\n
Demonstrators burn the US and British flags during a protest in Tehran after general Soleimani was killed in a targeted airstrike by American forces<\/p>\n
Reuters<\/p>\n
A burning vehicle at the Baghdad International Airport following an airstrike. The Pentagon said Thursday that the US military has killed general Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force, at the direction of Donald Trump<\/p>\n
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Protesters burn Israeli and US flags as thousands of Iranians take to the streets to mourn the death of general Soleimani at the hands of America<\/p>\n
EPA<\/p>\n
Supporters of Donald Trump pray at an 'Evangelicals for Trump' campaign event held on the day following the killing of general Soleimani. At the event, the president praised the \"flawless strike that eliminated the terrorist ringleader\"<\/p>\n
AFP via Getty<\/p>\n
A huge procession of mourners gather in Baghdad for the funeral of general Soleimani on 4 January<\/p>\n
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Thousands of Iranians take to the streets to mourn the death of Soleimani during an anti-US demonstration to condemn the killing of Soleimani, after Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran<\/p>\n
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Iraqis perform a mourning prayer for slain major general Qasem Soleimani of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards at the Great Mosque of Kufa<\/p>\n
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