Iran holds funeral for top brass killed in war with Israel

Iran will hold a state funeral service Saturday for around 60 people, including its military commanders, killed in its war with Israel, after Tehran's top diplomat condemned Donald Trump's comments on supreme leader Ali Khamenei as "unacceptable".

Both Israel and Iran claimed victory in the war that ended with a ceasefire, with Iranian leader Khamenei downplaying the US strikes as having done "nothing significant". In a tirade on his Truth Social platform, Trump blasted Tehran Friday for claiming to have won the war.

The state funeral proceedings in Tehran for 60 nuclear scientists and military commanders killed in Israeli strikes are set to begin at 8:00 am (0430 GMT) at Enghelab Square.

It will be followed by a funeral procession to Azadi Square, about 11 kilometres (seven miles) across the sprawling metropolis.

Mohsen Mahmoudi, head of Tehran's Islamici Development Coordination Council, vowed it would be a "historic day for Islamic Iran and the revolution".