The body of Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian military commander killed in a US drone strike, was apparently placed in a cardboard box and flown out of Iraq across rows of passenger seats, a new video shows.
The video, posted on Twitter by Babak Taghvaee, appears to show Soleimani’s coffin and those of others killed in the attack on a plane from Mashhad to Mehrabad Airport in Tehran — as a tribute video plays on one of the plane’s screens.
#BREAKING: An Airbus A300-603R of #MahanAir transported corpses of Qasem #Soleimani & Abu-Mahdi Al-Muhandis from #Mashhad to #Mehrabad Intl Airport, #Tehran. Their coffins were put on the passenger seats instead of being loaded in cargo/baggage compartments! pic.twitter.com/NnmKBvL8KB
— Babak Taghvaee – Μπάπακ Τακβαίε – بابک تقوایی (@BabakTaghvaee) January 5, 2020
Taghvaee, describes himself as a defense analyst and freelance writer, posted the video Sunday.
The coffins bear the images of Soleimani, the leader of the elite Quds Force, and Abu-Mahdi Al-Muhandis, the deputy head of the Popular Mobilization Forces, an Iranian-supported militia group in Iraq.
Read the original report from The New York Post
