President Masoud Pezeshkian attended the ceremony and Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani, a senior adviser to Khamenei who used a walking cane after being wounded in an Israeli strike in the war, was also in attendance.


But the supreme leader himself stayed away. Khamenei had delivered a video address to proclaim “victory” in the conflict which ended with a truce earlier this week.


As the funeral procession wound its way across the spawling metropolis, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi paid tribute to the war effort in a post on his social media page.