A stampede at a funeral for a slain Iranian general has killed dozens of mourners in southern Iran .
Thousands of people gathered in the city of Kerman for the funeral for General Qassem Soleimani of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Tuesday. He was killed in a US airstrike in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad last Friday.
Iran's authorities say that 32 people were killed and 190 were injured in the stampede. At the funeral, the commander of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, Major General Hossein Salami, said the killing of the general will bring about the end of the US presence in the region.
Anti-US sentiment is mounting in Iran, while Iraq has called for the withdrawal of foreign troops including those from the US.
A senior official of the Revolutionary Guard Corps said a withdrawal of the US military from the region would be more preferable than attacking US bases there.
NHK
