Huge farewell to IRGC general martyred in Lebanon
Iran held a funeral ceremony on Tuesday for Major General Abbas Nilforoushan who was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike on Lebanon last month.
Nilforoushan, a general in Iran’s Revolution Guards Corps, was killed in an Israeli strike alongside Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on September 27.
Nilforoushan’s casket was paraded through the packed streets of Tehran after a funeral ceremony at Imam Hossein Square in the city center.
Thousands attended the funeral procession, many of them carrying yellow Hezbollah banners and Iranian and Palestinian flags and chanting “Death to Israel.”
Memorial services were also held for Nilforoushan in Iraq on Monday.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Monday the country would use “all its capacities” to bring Israel to account over the assassinations.
On October 1, Iran launched 200 missiles on Israel in retaliation for the death of Nilforoushan and Nasrallah, in its second-ever direct attack on Israel’s military positions in the occupied territories.
The commander of the IRGC’s Quds Force Brigadier General Esmail Qa’ani also participated in the funeral ceremony in Tehran, ending rumors by some Western media that he had been targeted in an Israeli strike on Lebanon.