Iran to send high-ranking delegation for Nasrallah’s funeral ceremony

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said the country would participate at a high level in the commemoration ceremony for the late Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

News ID: 6031

Date: 17 February 2025 - 21:21

TABNAK, Feb 17: “We will take part in this ceremony at a high level. It is a very important ceremony,” Baghaei said at his weekly press conference on Monday.

On Tuesday, a Hezbollah official said delegations from 79 countries will attend the commemoration ceremony for Nasrallah and Executive Council chief Sayyid Hashim Safieddine, scheduled for February 23.

Speaking to reporters, Sheikh Ali Daher, the coordinator of the High Committee for the funeral of Nasrallah and Safieddine added that the ceremony will be “a day of commemoration for the leader of the oppressed against the arrogant, and the martyr of humanity against imperialism.”

Nasrallah was assassinated in Israel’s bombardment of southern Beirut on September 27, 2024. Using 85 tons of explosives, Israeli jets leveled six residential buildings in Dahiyeh, following a week-long bombing campaign that hit many areas from southern Lebanon to Beirut.

Safieddine was assassinated in an Israeli attack in October 2024.

Hezbollah postponed funeral ceremonies for both leaders due to fears of Israeli attacks on the ceremony.