Black-clad mourners filled the streets of central Tehran on Saturday as Iran held a state funeral service for about 60 people killed in attacks by Israel, including top military commanders and scientists, APA reports citing thenationalnews.com.
"The ceremony to honour the martyrs has officially started," state TV said, showing footage of people waving Iranian flags and holding pictures of assassinated commanders near Enghelab Square as lorries bearing coffins draped in the Iranian flag passed through the crowd.
A ceremony was due to be followed by a funeral procession to Azadi Square, about 11km away.
President Masoud Pezeshkian, along with other senior government officials and military commanders, including Esmail Qaani, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, attended the funeral.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, did not appear in the state broadcast of the funeral. He has in the past been shown holding prayers over the coffins of fallen military figures before their funerals.
