Iran holds state funeral for military leaders killed in Israel conflict

State funerals take place in Iran for around 60 people, including military commanders and nuclear scientists, killed during the 12 -day conflict with Israel.

Coffies draped in the Iranian flag, wearing portraits of deceased commanders, were flanked by crowds near the Enghelab Square in Tehran.

The conflict ended with a ceasefire earlier this week, after the United States was directly involved by bombing key nuclear sites in Iran.

Huge crowds of mourning people dressed in black sung slogans, agitated Iranian flags and held portraits of those who were killed.

Before the event, a media campaign urged people to participate, the authorities offering free bus and metro journeys. Government offices were closed for the day.

Among those who are buried are Mohammad Bagheri, the most upscale military officer of Iran who was chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces.

Bagheri will be buried with his wife and daughter, who were killed in an Israeli strike. In total, the Iranian authorities said that 627 people had been killed in Iran. Israeli officials said 28 people had been killed in Israel following missile attacks by Iran.

Saturday’s funerals also include Hossein Salami, commander -in -chief of the Islamic revolution guards, as well as a certain number of nuclear scientists such as Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, who was at the head of the University of Azad in Tehran.

It comes after US President Donald Trump said he “Absolutely” plan to bomb Iran again.

Answering a question from the BBC Nomia IQBAL Nomia during a White House press briefing on Friday, he said that he “undoubtedly” would attack the country if the intelligence concluded that Iran could enrich uranium at levels.

Trump also repeated his statements that Iran was “decimated”, writing: “Why the so-called” supreme chief “” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, from the country torn apart by war, says so blatant and stupidly he won the war with Israel, when he knows that his statement is a lie. “”

Trump also said he knew “exactly where he [Khamenei] was sheltered “, saying that he” would not leave Israel, nor the American armed forces … ending his life “.

“I saved him from a very ugly and ignominious death, and he does not have to say:” Thank you, President Trump! “”, Trump posted on his social platform for truth.

The Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, warned Trump not to make “disrespectful” comments on Khamenei, who said that we and the Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear sites had not obtained “nothing important”.

“If President Trump is real to want an agreement, he should put aside the disrespectful and unacceptable tone towards the supreme chief of Iran, Grand Ayatollah Khamenei,” said Araghchi on X.

“The great and powerful Iranian people, who showed the world that the Israeli regime had no choice but to run for” dad “to avoid being flattened by our missiles, do not gently take threats and insults.”

Araghchi admitted that “Excessive and serious” damage have been caused to Iranian nuclear sites by recent bombings.

The chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that he still does not know what part of Iran’s nuclear capacities – including very enriched uranium and the centrifugal necessary to purify the metal – have been destroyed or moved.

The director general of the agency Rafael Grossi also declared that preventing him from Iran from being able to build nuclear weapons would not be carried out thanks to military attacks.

“You are not going to solve this problem definitively militarily, you will have an agreement,” he told the American partner of the BBC CBS News.

On social networks, Trump said that in recent days, he had “worked on the possible abolition of sanctions, and other things, which would have given Iran a much better chance to a complete, fast and complete recovery”.

But he said that Khamenei’s comments had dissuaded him, declaring: “Instead, I am struck by a declaration of anger, hatred and disgust, and I immediately abandoned all the work on the relief of the sanctions, and more.”