(15 Oct 2024)
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Karbala, Iraq – 14 October 2024
1. Various of people carrying coffin wrapped in Iranian flag and chanting, UPSOUND (Arabic) “There is no God except Allah” and “No, no for Israel”
2. Various of people marching to drums holding Hezbollah and Iraqi Hashd al-Shaabi flags in the funeral procession with coffin
3. Man holding poster of killed Iranian Brig. Gen. Abbas Nilforushan
4. Funeral posters of Nilforushan and Hassan Nasrallah
5. Wide of people inside the holy Imam Hussein shrine in Karbala
6. Various of people surrounding the coffin inside the shrine
7. Various of participants carrying the coffin outside Hussein’s shrine and chanting (Arabic): “O Hussein, at your order”
8. Shrine in Karbala
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of members of Iranian-backed Iraqi militia groups attended Monday the funeral of a prominent general in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, who died in an Israeli airstrike that also killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut last month.
The body of Gen. Abbas Nilforushan was flown by private plane from Beirut to Baghdad, then transported to the city of Karbala, where the funeral took place.
Karbala is 70 kilometers (45 miles) southwest of Baghdad.
The mourners wore military uniforms and carried the flags of the Kataib Hezbollah and Harakat al-Nujaba militias, and the Popular Mobilization Forces — a collection of mostly Shiite armed groups that have semi-official status in the Iraqi military — and pictures of Nasrallah.
They chanted, “Death to Israel and America.”
The representative of the religious authority in Karbala, Sheikh Abdul Mahdi Al-Karbala, attended the funeral prayers at the shrine of Imam Hussein.
A second funeral will be held in the city of Najaf, then the body will be transferred to Iran for burial.
AP video shot by Ali Jabar
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