TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran’s Parliament Speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, will travel to Lebanon for the funeral of long-time Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah today, Iranian media reported.
Tens of thousands of people are expected to turn out in Beirut to farewell the group’s leader.
An Israeli air strike killed Nasrallah on September 27 last year at the start of an all-out war between his group and Israel after roughly a year of lower-level conflict.
In October 2023, Hezbollah began firing rockets at Israel in solidarity with fellow axis member Hamas during the Gaza war. Those exchanges escalated into more than two months of full-scale war before a ceasefire came into effect in November last year.
Ghalibaf “along with a number of parliamentarians and state officials will leave on Sunday for Lebanon to attend Nasrallah’s funeral”, Member of Parliament Alireza Salimi told the official IRNA news agency yesterday.
On Friday evening, the Fars news agency reported that Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi would also attend the ceremony.
A memorial ceremony for Nasrallah will also be held today in Tehran’s main mosque and in several cities across Iran, IRNA reported.
