Tehran, Oct 15 (EFE).- Iranian President Masud Pezeshkian, accompanied by thousands of people, led the Tuesday funeral in Tehran of Revolutionary Guard Brigadier General Abbas Nilforushan, killed in Israeli bombings against Beirut.
In the front row of the funeral were Pezeshkian and Gen. Hossein Salami, commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Guard. With them was Brig. Gen. Esmail Qaani, Quds Force commander-in-chief of the Iranian elite military corps, who reappeared in public after several weeks of speculation about his health, according to state television images.
Thousands accompanied authorities, waving the flags of Iran, Palestine and the Lebanese group Hezbollah, which together with the Palestinian Hamas, the Houthis of Yemen and the Iraqi militias, make up the anti-Israeli alliance “Axis of Resistance,” led by Tehran.
“Death to Israel” and “death to the United States” were heard, as is usual in this type of events organized by the state.
The protesters also carried photos of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, killed along with Nilforushan in Israeli bombings of Beirut suburbs on Sep. 27.
The crowd also expressed support for Iran’s 180-missile attack on Israel on Oct. 1 in response to the killings of Nilforushan and Nasrallah, as well as the death of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in an attack attributed to Israel in Tehran at the end of July.
Nilforushan’s body was found under the rubble last week and arrived Tuesday in Tehran.
The Revolutionary Guard general will be buried Thursday in the city of Isfahan, in central Iran. EFE
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