I have never seen such a huge crowd: NY. times correspondent
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I have never seen such a huge crowd: NY. times correspondent
Tehran (IP) - A New York Times reporter in Tehran at the funeral of Lt.Gen. Qasem Soleimani has said that she has never seen such a large crowd during her work in Tehran.
Iran Press/ Iran News: "Iran State Funeral for late Lieutenant General Qasem Soleimani begins in Tehran. Millions are out. Sea of endless people by 6 am. In the past 25 years covering Iran's news, I have never seen anything like this", New York Times correspondent Farnaz Fassihi wrote on his Twitter account.
I have also covered plenty of state sponsored rallies in #Iran where crowd is bused in. It never gets bigger than tens of thousands.
— Farnaz Fassihi (@farnazfassihi) January 6, 2020
This is millions. This is not coerced.#SoleimaniFuneral #قاسم_سیلمانی
"Crowd out in families, kids. Holding photos of Soleimani but also Iran flag & the red flag of battle call in Shia Islam," she said.
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