I have never seen such a huge crowd: NY. times correspondent

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.
This is millions. This is not coerced.#SoleimaniFuneral #قاسم_سيلماني

— Farnaz Fassihi (@farnazfassihi) January 6, 2020

"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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