gretta doha with the top stories on the al-jazeera tens of thousands of war news of gathered at the holy city of mashad to welcome home the body of the body the iranian military was assassinated by a u.s. airstrike in iraq on friday his body was brought back to iran will be on sunday earlier he was karajan a procession through a was and will likely be flown to tehran. the spokesman for iran's foreign ministry says tehran is not pursuing war but it is prepared for anything about mousavi said iran is disappointed by u.s. president donald trump's earlier about about targeting $52.00 iranian sides if you run targets america's most obvious the country will respond to any threats but says he hopes this leads to the end of any u.s. military presence in the region kim yeah to me leaving. they've committed has breached territorial integrity and freedom they have violated this by assess and i think the senior military leadership i hope that this will be the beginning of the end for us occupying forces in iraq and the whole region a number of fighters have been killed during an attack on the kenyan