It was only the best for slain Iranian terrorist Qassem Soleimani when his country’s religious leaders escorted what was left of his body home for a show funeral today.

Images posted online reportedly show the procession as it made its way through the throng – the slain Quds Force commander’s image emblazoned on the hood of a new USA-made Chevrolet police truck, surrounded by guards toting American-made machine guns.

“So funny,” Middle East reporter Asaad Hanna posted with an image to Twitter. “The body of #Soleimani in the funeral carried by a Chevrolet American car, the military guys around the car suited up an American uniform with an American M16 rifle , and the crowds shouting ‘Death for America.’”

Reuters reports “hundreds of thousands of Iranians thronged Tehran’s streets” to bid adieu to Soleimani on Monday after U.S. drones blasted him to smithereens during a visit to Baghdad, Iraq last week. President Trump ordered the hit on Soleimani, who was killed alongside other Iranian military and officials.

Other videos posted to Twitter reportedly show the coffins for Soleimani’s body and others riding in coach on a flight to Tehran.

“A Mahan Air Airbus A300 carried coffins of Qasem Soleimani & Abu-Mahdi Al-Muhandis to Tehran right on the passenger seats instead of being loaded in cargo hold,” Twitter user Babak Taghvae posted with a video, according to The Mirror.

The footage shows two men seated alongside the bodies, which are typically transported below deck.

In Tehran, the caskets were draped with flags and passed from hand to hand over the heads of mourners at the Imam Reza Shrine, where Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ismail Haniya, leader of Hamas, and Soleimani’s daughter, Zeinab Soleimani, and others lobbed threats at the U.S., Reuters reports.

The daughter told mourners America will face a “dark day” for her father’s death.

“Crazy Trump, don’t think that everything is over with my father’s martyrdom,” she said.

Amid chants of “Death to America” in Valiasr Square, an oversized red banner draped a mid-rise building with a white silhouette image of Soleimani, the inscription in English underneath: “Your blood challenges and adversary,” Aljazerra reports.

Haniya urged “unity … to punish those behind the heinous crime,” while General Esmail Ghaani, Soleimani’s successor, promised to “continue martyr Soleimani’s cause as firmly as before with the help of God, and in return for his martyrdom we aim to rid the region of America.”

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“God the Almighty has promised to take martyr Soleimani’s revenge,” Ghaani told Iran state television, according to Reuters. “Certainly, actions will be taken.”

President Trump, meanwhile, has already laid out the consequences if Iran opts to retaliate. U.S. officials said Trump acted to protect U.S. citizens in the region against imminent attacks at the hands of Soleimani, who led a siege on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad days before his death.

Trump’s triple tweet from Saturday:

Iran is talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets as revenge for our ridding the world of their terrorist leader who had just killed an American, & badly wounded many others, not to mention all of the people he had killed over his lifetime, including recently hundreds of Iranian protesters. He was already attacking our Embassy, and preparing for additional hits in other locations.

Iran has been nothing but problems for many years. Let this serve as a WARNING that if Iran strikes any Americans, or American assets, we have targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD.

The USA wants to more threats!