(24 Feb 2025)
IRAN NASRALLAH COMMEMORATION
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Tehran, Iran – 23 February 2025
1. Various of people at ceremony honoring Hezbollah’s former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, held on the same day as his funeral in Lebanon. Some waving flags of Hezbollah, Lebanon and Iran while chanting, UPSOUND: "Death to Israel"
2. Sign reading (English): "Down with USA, down with Israel" and reading (Farsi): "Death to America, death to Israel"
3. Image of Nasrallah on symbolic casket
4. Woman holding up picture of Nasrallah
5. Various of mourners holding pictures of Nasrallah and successor, Hashem Safieddine, who were both killed in separate Israeli airstrikes last year
6. The chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Gen. Hossein Salami greeting audience
7. Salami approaching lectern
8. Audience
9. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Gen. Hossein Salami, commander-in-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard:
"(The Israelis) finally accepted all conditions set by Hamas for this ceasefire, and you can witness clear examples of the glory of Hamas’ victory in the prisoner exchange."
10. Wide of ceremony
11. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Gen. Hossein Salami, commander-in-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard:
"Sayed Hassan (Nasrallah) was buried but the school of thought in which he grew up is still there. His brilliant ideas are evident in the way Hezbollah’s new generation thinks. The path he opened is still open and the flag he raised is still hoisted. The world is proud of such characters."
12. Audience chanting
13. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Gen. Hossein Salami, commander-in-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard:
"Iran’s invincibility is proven. When a small piece of land (Gaza) under siege has managed to defeat both America and Israel, everyone should calculate the power of great Iran."
14. Iranian President Masould Pezeshkian arriving at ceremony
15. Various of children singing
STORYLINE:
Iran held ceremonies across the country to commemorate former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and his successor Hashem Safieddine on the same day the two were buried in Lebanon.
A funeral was held for Nasrallah in Lebanon on Sunday, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Nasrallah shared the funeral with his cousin and successor, Hashem Safieddine, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb a few days later.
In Tehran, mourners waved Hezbollah flags and held pictures of the slain Hezbollah officials.
The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Gen. Hossein Salami said Nasrallah’s influence will continue to outlive him.
"His brilliant ideas are evident in the way Hezbollah’s new generation thinks. The path he opened is still open and the flag he raised is still hoisted," Salami said.
Nasrallah died after Israel’s air force dropped more than 80 bombs on the militant group’s main operations room in a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, dealing a major blow to the Iran-backed group and political party that he had transformed into a potent force in the Middle East.
Both had temporarily been buried in secret locations.
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