Ismail Qaani reappears at Nilfaroushan’s funeral in Tehran | news

The funeral ceremony for the leader of the Revolutionary Guard was held in Tehran today, Tuesday Abbas Nilforshanwho was killed in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, last September by an Israeli raid, and participated in the funeral, Commander Quds Force in Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen Ismail Qaani.

The Iranian President also attended the funeral ceremony Masoud BazeshkianAlong with senior civil and military officials, Nilfaroushan’s body is scheduled to be buried in his hometown of Isfahan.

The funeral ceremony for the Iranian general began from Imam Hussein Square in central Tehran on Tuesday morning, according to scenes broadcast live on Iranian state television.

Thousands attended the funeral ceremony, many of them raising flags Hezbollah Yellow Iranian and Palestinian flags amid chants of “Death to Israel.”

It was noteworthy that Qaani appeared during the reception of Nilfaroushan’s body, along with a large number of Iranian political and military leaders, days after there was speculation that he might be assassinated in an Israeli air strike in Lebanon.

Speculation

During the past two weeks, media outlets reported on the killing of Qaani, others claimed that he was injured, while other reports spoke of an investigation into him on charges of Israeli intelligence breaching the Revolutionary Guards, so today’s footage decided Qaani’s fate.

Qaani visited Hezbollah’s office in Tehran following the assassination of the party’s Secretary-General Hassan NasrallahAfter another Israeli attack targeted the party’s leaders in Beirut on October 4, there was talk again about his death or injury.

Later, Western media published news about an investigation being conducted with Qaani on charges that Israeli intelligence had penetrated the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and that he had suffered a heart attack during the investigation.

In early October, Iran launched an attack on Israel in which it used about 180 missiles. Tehran said it was retaliation for the assassination of the head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation) Ismail HaniyehNasrallah and Nilforshan.

Israel assassinated Hassan Nasrallah and others, including Nilforshan, with an air strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut on September 27.

Meanwhile, Haniyeh was assassinated in a bombing that targeted his residence during a visit to Tehran at the end of last July, and Iran accuses Israel of assassinating him.

Since September 23, Israel has expanded the scope of its genocide in… Gaza Strip Since October 7, 2023, it has included most of Lebanon’s regions, including the capital, Beirut, through air strikes.

With American support, the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza for a year has left more than 140,000 Palestinians martyred and wounded, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly.