Iran and Iraq will both stage funerals for Revolutionary Guard General Abbas Nilforoushan, killed in an Israeli airstrike alongside Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, the Guards’ news agency says.
Nilforoushan, a top commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force foreign operations arm, was killed on September 27 alongside Nasrallah in the strike on south Beirut.
The IRGC said Friday his body had been recovered from the site of the strike on the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold.
Funeral ceremonies will be held in Najaf and Karbala in Iraq on Monday before the body is transferred to Iran’s holy city of Mashhad, the Sepah news agency says.
Another ceremony will take place at Tehran’s Imam Hossein Square on Tuesday before burial Thursday in the central city of Isfahan, his hometown, Sepah says.
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