Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, will travel to Lebanon to attend the funeral of long-time Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday, Iranian media reported.
Tens of thousands of people are expected to turn out in Beirut to bid farewell to the Iran-aligned group’s leader.
An Israeli air strike killed Nasrallah on September 27 last year at the start of an all-out war between Hezbollah and Israel after roughly a year of lower-level conflict.
The massive air strike on Hezbollah’s south Beirut stronghold also killed Abbas Nilforoushan, a senior commander in Iran’s Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).