Iran is organizing the national funeral on Saturday, June 28 for around sixty officers and nuclear scientists killed during the 12 -day war launched by Israel, the fourth day of a high fragile fire and, while Donald Trump threatens to attack the country again.
“The tribute ceremony to the martyrs has officially started,” said a state television presenter at 8 am (4:30 GMT), in images of a crowd gathered in the center of Tehran.
National television programs Funeral processions of the “war martyrs imposed by the Zionist regime.” The coffins are covered in Iranian flags and carry portraits of the commanders killed in uniform.
“A historic day for Islamic Iran and the history of the revolution”
The funeral procession of Place Enghelab (Revolution) will then go to the place Azadi (Liberté), 11 kilometers away. Iranian president, Massoud fishshkian, participates in ceremonies, according to state television.
Saturday “it will be a historic day for the Islamic Iran and the history of the revolution,” said Friday on National Television Mohsen Mahmoudi, a religious official of the province of Tehran. Administrations and many companies are closed on Saturday for the occasion.
Several important commanders of the Iranian armed forces, including revolutionary guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic, as well as a dozen nuclear scientists, were killed by Israeli bombing.
Mohammad Bagheri, a powerful general of the Iranian armed forces and killed the first day of the war, will be buried with his wife and daughter, according to Mohsen Mahmoudi.
Mohammad Bagheri was the highest ranking of the Iranian forces, responsible for the army, the body of the guards of the revolution, but also of the country’s ballistic program. He worked directly under the authority of the Supreme Guide, Ayatolá Ali Khamenei, the end of the decision and commander of the Commander of the Armed Forces.
At least 627 dead in Iran, 28 in Israel
Ali Khamenei, in power since 1989, has presided over the national funeral, especially last year after death in a helicopter accident by President Ebrahim Raïssi. However, its presence on Saturday was not confirmed.
According to Iran’s Ministry of Health, at least 627 people died and almost 4,900 injured among the civil population during the 12 days of war. Iranian reprisals to Israel left 28 people dead, according to Israeli authorities.
The United States bombed three nuclear sites in Iran on the night from June 21 to 22, joining the offensive launched by Israel on June 13 to prevent the country from acquiring the atomic bomb.
On Friday, the US president said that the United States “undoubtedly” undoubtedly “new strikes in Iran in Iran if the country enriched uranium at levels that allowed him to obtain nuclear weapons.
He also accused Ayatolá Ali Khamenei, to lack recognition, saying that he had avoided “horrible and ignominious death.”
Iran, meanwhile, has always denied wanting to build the atomic bomb and claims the right to carry out a civil nuclear program.
Source: BFM TV
