PROTESTERS across the world are mobilising against war as tensions between the US and Iran intensified after the former’s assassination of an Iranian general.

The rallies followed the launch of US air strikes near Baghdad airport on Friday which killed seven people including Qasem Soleimani, head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force.

Major General Hossein Dehghan, military adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader, said today that Tehran’s response to the killing would “for sure be military.”