TEHRAN, JUN 28 (AFP/APP/DNA):Iran will hold a state funeral service Saturday for around 60 people, including its military commanders, killed in its war with Israel, after Tehran’s top diplomat condemned Donald Trump’s comments on supreme leader Ali Khamenei as “unacceptable
The Israeli strikes on Iran killed at least 627 civilians, Tehran’s health ministry said. Iran’s attacks on Israel killed 28 people, according to Israeli figures.
– ‘Historic’ state funeral –
The state funeral proceedings in Tehran for 60 nuclear scientists and military commanders killed in Israeli strikes were set to begin at 8:00 am (0430 GMT).
Iranian media broadcast the first images of the proceedings early Saturday for the “martyrs of the war imposed by the Zionist regime”.
Footage showed coffins draped in Iranian flags and bearing portraits of the slain commanders in uniform near Enghelab Square where a ceremony is due to take place.
It will be followed by a funeral procession to Azadi Square, about 11 kilometres (seven miles) across the sprawling metropolis.
Mohsen Mahmoudi, head of Tehran’s Islamic Development Coordination Council, vowed it would be a “historic day for Islamic Iran and the revolution”.
Among the dead is Mohammad Bagheri, a major general in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and the second-in-command of the armed forces after the Iranian leader.
He will be buried alongside his wife and daughter, a journalist for a local media outlet, all killed in an Israeli attack.
Nuclear scientist Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, also killed in the attacks, will be buried with his wife.
Revolutionary Guards commander Hossein Salami, who was killed on the first day of the war, will also be laid to rest after Saturday’s ceremony — which will also honour at least 30 other top commanders.
Of the 60 people who are to be laid to rest after the ceremony, four are children.
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