Iran Releases Photos Of Coffins Carrying Bodies Of Military Officials Ahead Of Mass Funeral

Last Updated:June 28, 2025, 08:38 IST

Ahead of the mass funeral, the Iranian state media have released the photos of the coffins carrying the dead bodies of military commanders and officials killed in the airstrikes.

Iranian state media have released the first photos of the coffins of senior military commanders and officials killed in Israeli airstrikes. (X)

Iran-Israel Tensions: Two weeks after exchanging firings in a direct conflict with Israel, Iran will is scheduled to hold “historic" funeral proceedings in Tehran for top military commanders and nuclear scientists killed during the 12-day war.

Ahead of the mass funeral, the Iranian state media have released the photos of the coffins carrying the dead bodies of senior military commanders and officials killed in the airstrikes.

The images purportedly show the coffins of Iran’s top general Mohammad Bagheri; Iran Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) chief commander Hossein Salami; Aerospace Force commander Amir-Ali Hajizadeh; Khatam al-Anbiya commander Gholam-Ali Rashid and his successor Ali Shadmani; IRGC Quds Force Palestine Corps chief Saeed Izadi; and Saeed Borji, who was known as the figure behind Iran’s nuclear detonation technology.

Tehran will hold funeral proceedings for 60 people in the capital on Saturday. The commemorations will begin at 0800 local time at Enghelab (Revolution) Square in central Tehran, news agency AFP reported.

The commemorations will be followed by a funeral procession to Azadi Square, about 11 km away.

“A brief ceremony will be held there, then the processions of the martyrs will go toward Azadi Square," Mohsen Mahmoudi, head of Tehran’s Islamic Development Coordination Council, said in a televised interview.

He added that Saturday, June 28, would be “a historic day for Islamic Iran and the revolution."

General Mohammad Bagheri, a major general in IRGC and the second-in-command of the armed forces after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was among those killed in Israel strikes under Operation Lion. He would be laid to rest alongside his wife and daughter, a journalist for a local media outlet, the news agency said.

Nuclear scientist Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, who was also killed in the attacks, will be buried with his wife.

Other high-ranking military officials will be buried in state-organised ceremonies in their home towns including Qom, Hamedan and Mashhad.

Israel targeted and killed more than 20 high-ranking military officials during the 12-day war, some of them in their homes.

It is expected that President Massoud Peseshkian will attend the funeral procession, but not the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Over 600 Killed In Iran Since June 13

The conflict between Iran and Israel broke out on June 13 when Israel launched strikes that it said were aimed at halting Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.

Over 30 top commanders of IRGC, including its commander-in-chief Hossein Salami and the head of its aerospace forces, Amirali Hajizadeh, were killed in the strikes.

The Iranian health ministry has said that over 627 people have been killed and around 4,900 have been injured in the Israeli attacks. Meanwhile, 28 people have been killed in the Iranian strikes in Israel.

Tehran, Iran

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