The burial of a top Iranian commander killed in a U.S. drone strike on Friday has been postponed.
It was postponed on Tuesday due to a stampede in his hometown, the semi-official ISNA news agency reports.
The report did not say how long the delay to burying Gen. Qassem Soleimani would last.
A report earlier said 35 people were killed in the stampede in his hometown of Kerman, NAN reports.
Dozens of people were killed in a stampede as huge crowds of mourners gathered for the funeral of a slain military commander in the southeastern Iranian city of Kerman on Tuesday, forcing his burial to be postponed.
Tens of thousands of people had poured onto the streets of Kerman to pay tribute to Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq on Friday.
Soleimani’s body had been taken to Iraqi and other Iranian cities before arriving in his hometown Kerman for burial, prompting mass outpourings of grief nationwide as the coffin was carried through streets.
In other developments on Tuesday, a senior Iranian official said that Tehran was considering 13 scenarios to avenge his killing.
In Washington, the U.S. defence secretary denied reports that the U.S. military was preparing to withdraw from Iraq.
