Chief-Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Brigadier General Esmail Qaani has been seen attending the funeral ceremony of Major General Abbas Nilforoushan in the Iranian capital Tehran, APA reports citing IRNA.
The funeral ceremony was held early on Tuesday with the participation of his comrades-in-arm, members of his family, officials and military commanders.
Earlier, the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf had dismissed the rumors about General Qaani and reassured about the Quds Force commander’s good conditions.
The body of General Nilforoushan, the supreme advisor of the Islamic Republic to Lebanon, returned to Iran more than two weeks after he was killed by the Israeli forces in Lebanon along with Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
About a week later, the IRGC launched a volley of hypersonic ballistic missiles at Israeli military targets in Palestine in retaliation for the assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Nasrallah and Nilforoushan in Beirut.