Iran Holds State Funeral For Commanders, Scientists Killed In Israeli Attacks

The proceedings started at 8:00 am local time (0430 GMT) in the capital Tehran as government offices and many businesses were closed on Saturday for the occasion.

The ceremony to honour the martyrs has officially started," state TV said, showing footage of people donning black clothes, waving Iranian flags and holding pictures of the military commanders. 

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian as well as other senior government officials also attended the event.

Images showed coffins draped in Iranian flags and bearing portraits of the killed commanders in uniform near Enghelab Square in central Tehran.

The United States had carried out strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites last weekend, joining its ally Israel's bombardments of Iran's nuclear programme in the 12-day conflict launched on June 13.

Both Israel and Iran claimed victory in the war that ended with a ceasefire, with Iranian leader Khamenei downplaying the US strikes as having done "nothing significant".  

In a tirade on his Truth Social platform, Trump blasted Tehran Friday for claiming to have won the war. 

He also claimed to have known "EXACTLY where he (Khamenei) was sheltered, and would not let Israel, or the U.S. Armed Forces... terminate his life".