World in brief: December 28, 2023
Iranian mourners carry the flag-draped coffin of Seyed Razi Mousavi, a high ranking Iranian general of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, who was killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria on Monday, during his funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran, December 28, 2023
IRAN: Hundreds of mourners joined the funeral procession of General Razi Mousavi, a high-ranking general of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard killed by an alleged Israeli air strike in Syria, today.
He was taken from central Tehran to a shrine in the north of the city where he was buried.
The head of the guard, General Hossein Salami, vowed Gen Mousavi’s death would be avenged.
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