Iran mourns Nasrallah's death amid tensions

Iran held a mourning ceremony for assassinated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in the capital Tehran on the same day Nasrallah was buried at a huge funeral in Beirut.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards chief Hossein Salami spoke at the event, saying "Iran's invincibility had been proven" in the region's recent conflicts.

“The reason for this was that he acted on what he believed in and had faith in,” Major General Hossein Salami said.

He made the remark in a ceremony in the Iranian capital Tehran to pay tribute to Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late leader of the Hezbollah resistance movement, and his deputy and appointed successor Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, as well as other leaders of the resistance.

He said Nasrallah showed the path of resistance to young Muslims and was the most outstanding personality in the Arab world as even his enemies praised and admired him.

The killing of Nasrallah five months ago, who led the Shi'ite Muslim group through decades of conflict with Israel and oversaw its transformation into a military force with regional sway, was one of the opening salvos in an Israeli escalation that badly weakened Hezbollah.

The mass funeral in Beirut appeared aimed at showing strength after Hezbollah emerged battered from last year's war with Israel, which killed most of its leadership and thousands of fighters, and wreaked destruction on south Lebanon.

Using US-supplied bunker-busting bombs, Israel assassinated Nasrallah, the longtime leader of Hezbollah, in an airstrike on southern Beirut in September 2024.

The following month, the criminal regime assassinated Safieddine, the head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, in a similar attack.

Hezbollah postponed funeral ceremonies for both leaders due to fears of Israeli attacks on the ceremony.

Massive crowds from various regions of Lebanon and around the world converged in Beirut to attend the historic funeral procession for the martyred Hezbollah leader and former head of its Executive Council.