Iran holds the funerals of the first state of military leaders and nuclear scientists who were killed in Israeli strikes

Hundreds of thousands of mourners lined up in the streets in the center of Tehran on Saturday for the funeral of the Head of the Revolutionary Guards, senior leaders and nuclear scientists who were killed during a A 12 -day war with Israel.

Gen. Hussein Salami’s goalkeeper, head of the Guard’s ballistic missile program, General Amir on his barn and others were drove on trucks along the capital Azadi Street, where people chanted in the crowd: “Death to America” ​​and “Death to Israel”.

Salami and his successors were killed on the first day of the war, June 13, Israel launched a war He said he intended to destroy the Iranian nuclear program, specifically targeting military leaders, scholars and nuclear facilities.

Government media reported that more than a million people turned into the funeral procession, which was impossible to confirm independently, but the heavy crowd mobilized the main Tehran road along the road, which is approximately three miles long.

There was no immediate sign of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali KhawlniIn the state broadcasting the funeral. Khawnai, who did not appear publicly since before the outbreak of the war, was at the previous funerals for the leaders who fell on their boxes before the open celebrations, which was later broadcast on government television.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragichi was within reach, and government television reported that General Ismail Qahni, who headed the foreign wing of the Revolutionary Guards, the Jerusalem power, and General Ali Shamkhani were also among the mourners.

Shamkhani, the advisor to Khounai, who was injured in the first round of the Israeli attack and was admitted to the hospital, was shown in a civil lawsuit tending to cane in the form of government television television channel.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard was created after its Islamic revolution in 1979. Since its foundation, it has evolved from a paramilitary security force to a national force that reached the help of Tehran’s allies in the Middle East, from Syria and Lebanon to Iraq. It is working in parallel with the current armed forces in the country and controls Iran’s arsenal of ballistic missiles, which it used to attack Israel twice during the Israeli war of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

More than 12 days before the cease Nuclear related facilities More than 720 military infrastructure sites. More than 1,000 people, including at least 417 civilians, were killed, according to the Washington -based activists group.

Iran launched more than 550 ballistic missiles in Israel, most of which were intercepted, but those who were damaged caused damage to many areas and killed 28 people.

Saturday’s celebrations were the first general funeral of the senior leaders since the ceasefire, and Iranian government television reported that they were 60 people in total, including four women and four children.

The authorities closed government offices to allow public employees to attend the celebrations.

Many in the crowd expressed feelings of anger and challenge.

“This is not a ceasefire, it is just a temporary stop,” said Ahmed Musabur, 43, who is waving an Iranian flag. “Whatever they do, we will definitely give an overwhelming response.”

Government media has published pictures of an open grave conspiracy in the vast TEHRAN cemetery Behesht-E-Zahra where the army commander of the army, Muhammad Bagheri, who was killed on the first day of the war, was supposed to be buried in the first day of the war, next to his brother, a commander of guards killed during the Iran-IRQ war in the 1980s.

Many others were to be buried in their hometown.

The Iranian Judicial News Agency confirmed that the largest public prosecutor is in Evin Prison is notorious He was killed in an Israeli strike on Monday.

He stated that Ali Ghanatkar, whose prosecution of dissidents has caused widespread criticism by human rights groups, will be buried in a shrine in Qom.

Iran has always insisted that its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes. But Israel considers it an existential threat and said that its military campaign is necessary to prevent Iran from building an atomic weapon.

The last public appearance was in Khamanni on June 11, two days before the outbreak of hostilities with Israel, when the Iranian parliamentarians met.

Thursday, however, is He released a previously recorded videoIn his first message since the end of the war, full of warnings and threats directed at the United States and Israel, the opponents of the Islamic Republic for a long time.

Reduce the 86 -year -old US strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites He also did not achieve “anything important” and claimed victory over Israel.

Chairman of the United Nations Nuclear Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, Distinguish damage It was done by American bombs with American bombs to the Iranian Fordo nuclear site, which was built in a mountain, as “very large”.