More than 30 people died in a stampede at the funeral of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, Iran's state-news agency IRINN reports, citing the head of the country's emergency organization. Another 190 people were injured, semi-official news agency ISNA says.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks at a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, in October last year.
Zarif was referring to a tweet Trump sent Saturday in which the President said that if Iran strikes any Americans or American assets, the United States has 52 Iranian sites targeted -- a reference to the number of Americans taken hostage in the 1979 revolution --"some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture," he wrote.
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