Iran holds state funeral for military leaders killed in Israel conflict

伊朗为在以色列冲突中牺牲的军事领导人举行国葬

Global News Podcast

2025-06-29

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A state funeral has been held in Iran for military commanders and nuclear scientists, killed during the 12-day conflict with Israel. Also: Budapest Pride march draws huge crowds in defiance of Orban legal threats.
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  • This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Jackie Leonard and in the early hours of Sunday the 29th of June these are our main stories.

  • Iran has held a major state funeral in Tehran for senior Iranian military commanders and nuclear scientists assassinated by Israel earlier this month.

  • Israel's military says it's killed one of the founding members of Hamas in Gaza and hundreds of thousands of people have defied a ban by the Hungarian government to take part in an LGBT pride march in the capital Budapest.

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  • Iran's president has thanked Iranians

  • for attending Saturday's state funeral in Tehran for the top commanders and nuclear scientists assassinated in Israeli strikes earlier this month.

  • Masoud Pesachian said, the voice of our unity reached the world.

  • Mourners dressed in black appeared both grief-stricken and defiant, chanting slogans,

  • waving Iranian flags, and they held portraits of the 60 who were killed.

  • The country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Atollah Ali Khamenei did not attend the funeral.

  • His absence is thought to have been due to security concerns.

  • It's reported that tens of thousands of people crowded the streets of Tehran.

  • Our chief international correspondent Lise Doucet was watching.

  • She is being allowed to report in Iran on condition that none of her reports are used on the BBC's Persian service.

  • This law from the Iranian authorities applies to all international media agencies operating in Iran. 60 coffins draped with Iranian flags move through the streets of Tehran on flatbed trucks,

  • bearing photographs of the dead, the top soldiers who once commanded Iranian forces,