Thirty-five people have been killed and 48 others injured in a stampede at a funeral procession for a general targeted in a US air strike , according to Iranian state television.
The incident happened in Kerman , the home town of Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani , where the procession was under way, it said.
It quoted the head of Iran's emergency medical services, Pirhossein Koulivand , as saying there had been people injured and killed.
A procession in Tehran on Monday drew more than one million people in the Iranian capital, crowding both main thoroughfares and side streets.
Soleimani was killed in a US airstrike, ordered by President Donald Trump, in Baghdad on Friday, and his death has provoked a crisis, with Iran pledging to avenge his death.
The funeral comes as it was announced Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab will to travel to Brussels later today for talks with his European counterparts on the situation in the Middle East.
Raab will have a bilateral meeting with the French foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, before they join their German and Italian counterparts and the EU High Representative for talks on Libya.
The so-called "E3" - Britain, France and Germany - will then meet to discuss the tensions between the US and Iran, with all three pushing for de-escalation, said a Foreign Office spokesman.
The talks are expected to cover the nuclear deal following Iran's latest announcement on Sunday that it is withdrawing from further commitments in the deal.
