Iran Threatens To ‘Set Ablaze' The Places ‘U.S. Likes'

Revolutionary Guard chief Hossein Salami says they will target places backed by U.S. as crowds chant ‘Death to Israel’

The leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened on Tuesday to “set ablaze” places supported by the U.S. over the killing of a top Iranian general in a U.S. airstrike last week, sparking cries from the crowd of supporters of “Death to Israel!”

Hossein Salami issued the warning before a huge crowd gathered in a central square in Kerman, the hometown of General Qassem Soleimani, as they prepared to bury him.

Mourners in Kerman dressed in black carried posters bearing the image of Soleimani, a man whose slaying prompted Iran’s supreme leader to weep over his casket on Monday as a crowd said by police to be in the millions filled Tehran streets. Although there was no independent estimate, aerial footage and Associated Press journalists suggested a turnout of at least 1 million, and the throngs were visible on satellite images of Tehran taken on Monday.