Iran leader leads prayers today amid tension
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is to lead today’s prayers in the capital Tehran.
This will be the first time he has done so in eight years.
It comes in the wake of widespread angry protests over the Ukrainian passenger plane shot down by Iran’s military last week.
On Wednesday, president Hassan Rouhani appealed for national unity.
He also called on the military to give a full account of how it shot down the plane.
The Ukraine international airlines Boeing 737-800 was travelling to Kiev from Tehran on January the 8th when it crashed shortly after take-off.
All 176 passengers on board, including dozens of Iranians and Canadians, were killed.
US military says has it treated eleven of its troops for symptoms of concussion after an Iranian missile attack targeted an Iraqi base where US forces were stationed.
The Military has initially said no service members were hurt.
The attack on January the 8th was in retaliation for a US drone strike in Baghdad on January the 3rd that killed Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the elite Quds force of Iran’s revolutionary guard.