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Iran parliamentary speaker to attend Nasrallah funeral — state media
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Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, will travel to Lebanon for the funeral of long-time Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday, Iranian media reports.
Tens of thousands of people are expected to turn out in Beirut to farewell the Iran-backed terror group’s leader.
An Israeli airstrike killed Nasrallah on September 27 last year at the start of an all-out war between his group and Israel after roughly a year of lower-level conflict.
The massive airstrike on Hezbollah’s south Beirut stronghold also killed Abbas Nilforoushan, a senior commander in Iran’s Quds Force — the foreign operations arm of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Hezbollah is part of Iran’s “Axis of Resistance,” a loose alliance of forces united in their dedication to destroying Israel.
The Times of Israel Community.