Relatives of U.S. paratroopers deployed to Kuwait amid heightening tensions with Iran have been receiving “menacing” messages on social media, prompting an alert this week from the U.S. Army to family members of service members, according to reports.

In a telephone conversation with his Turkish counterpart General Akar on Thursday, Iran's Defense Mininster Brigadier General Hatami described the assassination of Gen. Soleimani as a “coward” move by Washington and “a true example of state-sponsored terrorism”.

AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Funeral ceremony of 6 martyrs of plane crash held at Hazrat Masoumah (SA) holy Shrine in Qom.

AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): In a tweet to Iranian people, Trump said he will stand with them. The nation that Trump called them a terrorist nation. He withdraws from an international agreement with Iran and imposes the biggest economic sanctions on this nation. Indeed, Trump by destroying Iranian nation stands with them.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday that assassination of Lieutenant General Soleimani will mark beginning of the end of the US presence in the region.

Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement’s second in command Sheikh Naim Qassem said the resistance front will continue more vigorously its efforts to expel US forces from the region.

Former US Vice President Joe Biden accused President Donald Trump of “flat-out” lying about the justification for killing top Iranian commander Lt. General Qassem Soleimani.

Influential Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has demanded that Iraqis stage a “million-man march” against the continued US military presence in the country, days after Iraq’s parliament voted to expel the American troops following an assassination operation by Washington on Iraqi soil.

Stating that the martyrdom of Lieutenant General Qasem Soleimani and the loss of a number of citizens in Kerman and the plane crash has saddened the Iranian nation, the President said, "These incidents were very bitter for all of us, but we need to learn from them and use them as opportunities for our country’s benefit and national interests”.

AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Meeting on General Soleimani's role in Middle East held at "Imam Hussain (AS)" cultural center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the Lieutenant General Soleimani assassination by the US forces in Iraq in fact initiated a chain of defeats and failures for the US, Zionist regime of Israel and their regional allies in the battlefields.

Referring to the need for the two countries’ authorities to try to facilitate and accelerate the implementation of agreements and contracts, saying, "The Islamic Republic of Iran is determined to further deepen Tehran-Damascus relations in all fields of mutual interest”.

Iran's Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said on Monday that the US criminal assassination resulted in empowering 'Resistance Front'.

AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Thousands of people in Gilgit-Baltistanon held a protest against the US over the assassination of General Soleimani.

Pakistanis have taken to the streets in the northwestern city of Peshawar to protest the US assassination of top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.