Iranians pay last tribute to top IRGC commander

Published October 16th, 2024 - 12:29 GMT
Iran
People gather around a vehicle bearing the Arabic slogan "surely we will be victorious" carrying the coffin of Abbas Nilforoushan, the slain commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) who was killed in an Israeli air strike on Beirut's southern suburbs in late September, during his funeral procession in Mashhad in southern Iran on October 16, 2024. (Photo by Seyed Mohammad Alerasool / ISNA / AFP)

Farzaneh Ashoorioun
Press TV, Tehran

Iranians have attended a massive funeral ceremony for Martyred IRGC commander, Major General Abbas Nilforoushan in Tehran. The senior commander was assassinated in an Israeli attack against Lebanon on September 27th alongside Hezbollah's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

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