2025-06-29
31 分钟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.
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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,