The ceremonies were held on Sunday evening in the capital, Tehran, and other cities including Qom, Shiraz, Qeshm, and Zanjan. 

Top Iranian officials, including Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami, attended the ceremony in Tehran.

Addressing the ceremony at Imam Khomeini Mosalla, Salami paid tribute to Nasrallah, describing him as the “most distinguished figure” in the Arab world.  

“The world takes pride in such personalities,” he said.

Salami said Israel is now weaker than a spider’s web thanks to the steadfastness of the resistance front and their heroic leaders. He promised that the spirit of resistance would continue until the eradication of the Israeli regime.

At the height of the war, Salami said there was a misconception among Israeli authorities who believed Hezbollah would be defeated if its military and political leaders were assassinated.

“They thought that without their leaders, Hezbollah would be extinguished and that there would be no one left to stand against the Zionist onslaught” in the Gaza Strip, he noted.

The commander pointed out that the Israeli regime was subsequently forced to retreat from Gaza. “Today, the Zionists have conceded to all the demands of Hamas,” he said.

Earlier in the day, a historic funeral took place in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, for Hezbollah’s long-serving leader Nasrallah and his successor, Safieddine, both assassinated by Israel during its air aggression on Lebanon last year.

People from various regions of Lebanon and around the world converged in Beirut to attend the funeral prayers and bid farewell to the two resistance leaders.

A high-ranking delegation from the Iranian government, including Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, traveled to Beirut to attend the procession.

Nasrallah, who led Hezbollah for 32 years, was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike on September 27 last year in Dahieh, a southern suburb of Beirut. Safieddine, who was named Hezbollah’s secretary-general in the wake of Nasrallah’s assassination, was killed in a similar Israeli act of aggression in Dahieh on October 3.