Iran held a state funeral Saturday for some 60 scientists and commanders killed in its war with Israel, after its top diplomat condemned the latest White House tirade against supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
State television aired footage of thousands of black-clad mourners chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” as they held aloft photographs of the dead.
“The ceremony to honor the martyrs has officially started,” state TV said, showing footage of people donning black clothes, waving Iranian flags, and holding pictures of the slain military commanders.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian as well as other senior government officials attended the event.
Images showed coffins draped in Iranian flags and bearing portraits of the deceased commanders in uniform near Enghelab Square in central Tehran.
The caskets of Guards chief Gen. Hossein Salami, the head of the Guard’s ballistic missile program, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, and others were driven on trucks along the capital’s Azadi Street.
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