With the killing of Qassem Soleimani, Iranian supreme leader Khamenei lost his most important handler and lever in the Middle East.  Khamenei did not say anything at the funeral; he just cried.  At great expense, Khamenei drove around the casket of this butcher of people, who also made six million Syrians homeless, to the cities of Mashhad, Ahwaz, Qom, Tehran, and Kerman.  Government propaganda for the funeral of this criminal was reminiscent of Hitler's fascist propaganda in June of 1942 for Reinhardt Heydrich, the main organizer of the Holocaust.  Like Heydrich, Soleimani was a cruel executioner.

Tricks for gathering the crowds for Soleimani's funeral were despicable.

The Iranian regime attempted to convert the funeral into raw materials for propaganda.

The regime asked students at Iran's University of Sanaye to attend Khamenei's prayer for Soleimani at the University of Tehran, in order to get passing marks in their courses. Government centers, schools, and colleges were closed.

A formal statement offered to pay for the free trip, breakfast, lunch, and dinner in order to bring a larger crowd to the burial ceremony in Shiraz.

A witness from Varamin, south of Tehran, said: "The crowd you see at the funeral is because the regime has closed all schools and offices.  Thousands of servings of food were given to the hungry people, and the hungry people ate the food and left early, and there was no one left to pray.  Regime officials said we made a mistake; we had to have the ceremony first and then have given the food."

In Mashhad, the government ordered that all businesses, markets, and malls around the shrine of Imam Reza should be closed for half a day or a full day.  The Ferdowsi's market in Mashhad was closed until 3 P.M.  If the shop was open on Mofateh Street, the owner would be warned.

The Ministry of Education instructed all teachers that students should compose an essay on Soleimani and must light candles and cry in classrooms.

One of the people in Mashhad said: "By Saturday, January 4, the crowd had been transported to Mashhad by bus from different villages.  From our village, which is 240 km away from Mashhad, they brought 150 families in buses promising them 3 meals a day and free accommodation."

At 11 P.M. on Saturday, January 4, on Ahmadabad Street in Mashhad, the regime gave out photos of Soleimani and asked people to put the photo on the windshield of their cars, but the majority threw the photos out of their windows.

Most of the personnel of Rajaii Shahr Prison were dispatched to the funeral of Soleimani on Monday, January 6.

That same Monday, a school principal in Tehran telephoned his staff and told them, "Whoever is in the funeral of Soleimani should get himself a Selfie, he/she will have both an afterlife reward and a 200 Tomans from school."

In Kerman, many posters and banners were circulated at intersections across the city, none of which were approved by the people, who were opposed to this circus.  People were happy with the death of Soleimani.

The regime has tried hard to portray Soleimani as a "national hero" and said that "Soleimani did not receive a rial or a dollar for his missions."  While everyone knows that Soleimani in Iran had a huge network from the IRGC to the municipalities, the Endowment Organization to the Red Crescent, the Ministry of Defense's Quds Force, and even an independent financial network, he could distribute cash and distribute weapons to his forces within 24 hours.  He was the number-one man in regional diplomacy in the Islamic Republic.  He was a drug-dealer and fed the Quds terrorist force with drug money.

Even as the regime's elaborate and expensive ceremonies unfolded, an announcement by the families of martyrs of the uprising that they would hold a mourning ceremony on December 25^th brought 400,000 of armed forces into the streets to stop people from participating in the ceremony.

However, in various Iraqi cities, the slogan of the curse on Soleimani, "I am  Iraqi," was heard in the streets of Baghdad, Karbala, and Nasserieh.

On Sunday, the 5th of January, Iraqi revolutionary youths, along with students in southern cities and provinces, began a strike against the illegitimate government and mercenaries of the Iranian regime.

Khamenei's mercenaries, who tried to glorify Soleimani and Abu Mahndes by driving around an empty casket, met with youth resistance.  Hashed al-Sha'abi mercenaries fired on people in Nasserieh, killing one youth.

Al-Arabiya reports after the killing in Nasserieh, people set fire to the Hashed al-Sha'abi office in Dhi Qar.

The youths also burned the car of the Iranian mercenaries.