Iran’s Quds Force chief Qaani attends general’s funeral: state TV

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People carry the coffin of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps commander Abbas Nilforoushan during his funeral procession near the Imam Hussein shrine in Iraq’s holy central city of Karbala on Oct. 14, 2024. (AFP)
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  • General Abbas Nilforoushan was killed last month alongside Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah

TEHRAN: Iranian commander Esmail Qaani on Tuesday attended the funeral in Tehran for slain general Abbas Nilforoushan who was killed last month alongside Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah.
The funeral procession for Nilforoushan, a general in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, began at the Imam Hossein Square, according to a live broadcast on state television.
Qaani — who heads the Quds Force, the Revolutionary Guards’ foreign operations arm — had disappeared from public view and was rumored in some media to have been targeted in an Israeli strike on Lebanon before reappearing.

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