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Saturday, June 28, 2025
Funeral starts for Iranian military commanders killed in war with Israel
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIran begins a state funeral service for around 60 people, including its military commanders and nuclear scientists, killed in its war with Israel, state media reports.
“The ceremony to honour the martyrs has officially started,” state TV says, showing footage of people donning black clothes, waving Iranian flags and holding pictures of the slain military commanders.
Iranian media broadcasts the first images of the funeral proceedings for the “martyrs of the war imposed by the Zionist regime.”
Footage showed coffins of military commanders killed in the war draped in Iranian flags and bearing portraits of the slain commanders in uniform near Enghelab Square, where a ceremony is due to take place.
It will be followed by a funeral procession to Azadi Square, about 11 kilometres (seven miles) across the sprawling metropolis
Iranian state media have released the first photos of the coffins of senior military commanders and officials killed in Israeli airstrikes, just two hours ahead of their mass funeral in downtown Tehran.
The images purportedly show the bodies of Iran’s top general Mohammad… pic.twitter.com/tYeBzhJdwg— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) June 28, 2025
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