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Tens of thousands of people bordered the streets of the Iranian capital, Tehran, while the country organized funeral for military commanders, nuclear scientists and certain civilians killed in Israeli attacks earlier this month.
State television showed images of people wearing black clothes, waving the Iranian flags and holding photos of some of the deaths of the ceremony which started at 8 a.m. (04:30 GMT) on Saturday.
Images from the center of Tehran have shown coffins draped in Iranian flags and carrying portraits of the commanders who died in uniform.
Israel launched the assault against its main regional rival on June 13, killing several senior military and scientific officials and bombing military sites and nuclear facilities across the country. Iran responded with missile attacks against Israel.
The Israeli bombardment continued for 12 days, with the United States, the United States joining the conflict to make strikes on three nuclear sites last weekend. In retaliation for American attacks, Iran has launched a wave of missiles in an American military base in Qatar.
Israel and Iran won the victory in the war that ended with a ceasefire on Tuesday, with the supreme chief of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei minimizing American strikes, saying that Trump had “exaggerated events in an unusual manner”, and by rejecting American claims that Iran that Iran that Iran nuclear program had been found by decades.
The coffins of the chief general of the goalkeeper Hossein Salami, the leader of the guardian’s ballistic missile program, General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, and others were taken on trucks along the Azadi street in the capital while people of the crowd sang: “Death To America” and “Death to Israel”.
Salami and Hajizadeh were both killed on the first day of the war, which, according to Israel, was intended to destroy the Iranian nuclear program.
Mohammad Bagheri, an adult general of the Iranian revolution goalkeeper, as well as the best nuclear scientist Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi were also killed in Israeli attacks.
Mass prayers then took place in the Azadi Place Tehran.
Saturday ceremonies were the first public funeral for the best commanders from the ceasefire, and Iranian state television reported that they were for 60 people in total, including 16 scientists, 10 senior commanders, as well as four women and four.
President Masoud Pezeshkian, President Masoud Pezeshkian and other personalities, including Ali Shamkhani, was seriously injured during the conflict and is an adviser to the supreme Iranian chief of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as the son of Khamenei Mojtaba.
The authorities have closed government offices to allow civil servants to attend the ceremonies.
War of words
State funerals occur one day after American president Donald Trump launched a tirade on his social platform of truth, boosting Khamenei for having said in a video address that Iran had won the war.
Trump also claimed to have known “Exactly where he (Khamenei) was sheltered and would not leave Israel, nor the American armed forces … put an end to his life”.
He said he had worked in recent days on the possible referral to sanctions against Iran, but he abandoned it after Khamenei’s remarks.
Back to Trump on Saturday, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, said on X: “If President Trump is real to want an agreement, he should put aside the disrespectful and unacceptable tone towards the supreme leader of Iran.”
Al Jazeera’s Serdar Resul, reporting from Tehran, said that Araghchi’s remarks were “a long -awaited reaction” to Trump’s social media publications.
“Many Iranians consider him (Khamenei) as mainly a religious leader, but according to the Constitution, he is not only that – he is the political leader, he is the military leader – he is simply the head of state in Iran,” he said.
Serdar also said that Khamenei’s position was not only the top of a hierarchy, but a divine role in Shiite political theology.
“Not only in Iran, but around the world, we know that there are a significant number of Shiites looking for his advice,” said Serdar. “Anyone who knows that it would not meticulously not criticize him publicly, and above all not to accuse him of lying.”
No nuclear talks planned
There was no sign of Khamenei, in the dissemination of the state of the funeral.
The supreme leader, who has not made a public appearance since before the start of the war, has in the past funeral held prayers for commanders who fell on their coffins before the open ceremonies, was then broadcast on state television.
During the 12 days preceding the ceasefire, Israel said it killed around 30 Iranian commanders and 11 nuclear scientists, while hitting eight nuclear facilities and more than 720 military infrastructure sites.
Iran has drawn more than 550 ballistic missiles in Israel, most of which were intercepted, but those who have suffered damage in many regions and killed 28 people, according to Israeli figures.
Israeli attacks on Iran have killed at least 627 civilians, said the Tehran Ministry of Health and Medical Education.
After the American strikes, Trump said that negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program for a new agreement should restart next week, but Tehran denied There were plans for a recovery.
