Who Was Qasem Soleimani, Iranian Whose Grave Was Struck By Twin Blasts

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, once hailed Soleimani as a "living martyr of the revolution." Yet, in the eyes of the US, he was a ruthless killer.

On Wednesday, twin bomb blasts killed at least 95 people in southern Iran, many of whom were part of a crowd commemorating former Revolutionary Guards chief Qasem Soleimani four years after he died in a US strike. 

Blaming Israel and the United States for the attacks, the Iranian government has heightened tensions in a region already fraught with the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza.

But who was Qasem Soleimani?