(5 Dec 2024)
IRAN FUNERAL
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Tehran, Iran - 5 December 2024
1. Various of funeral for anonymous soldiers killed 1980s Iran-Iraq war, flag-draped coffins being carried through crowds of mourners
2. Band performing
3. Various of funeral
4. Women crying
5. Coffins
6. Man beating his chest
7. Fabrics being gently rubbed against coffins for blessing and given black to mourners
8. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohammad Ali Taleshi, 55, Tehran resident:
"These martyrs went to the war and fought to protect our honor and our land. The security we have today we owe to the pure blood of these martyrs. It's because of them that we can live in peace."
9. Various of mourners at funeral
10. Various of mourner Gholamreza Ashrafi weeping and touching the coffins for blessing
11. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Gholamreza Ashrafi, 55, Tehran resident:
"These martyrs are telling us we donated our blood and our lives, and now you should protect the country. To save Islam and the Quran, we shouldn't deviate from the path of the supreme leader."
12. Coffins
13. Mourners chanting, UPSOUND (Farsi): "Death to Israel"
14. Sign reading (Farsi): "America is complicit in all crimes happening in Palestine" and "death to America," along with text reading (English): "Down with USA"
15. Mourners chanting, UPSOUND (Farsi): "Oh our free leader, we are ready, we are ready!"
16. Various of funeral
17. Coffins
18. Various of mourners and funeral
STORYLINE:
Iran on Thursday held funeral processions for anonymous soldiers killed during the 8-year war with Iraq in the 1980s, a testament to the brutal conflict’s widespread scale and enduring legacy more than 35 years later.
In Tehran, eight trucks carried 100 flag-draped caskets through crowds of mourners, some of whom were weeping.
Similar rituals were held in other cities across Iran for 200 other soldiers.
"These martyrs are telling us we donated our blood and our lives, and now you should protect the country," said mourner Gholamreza Ashrafi.
More than three decades after the war that ended in 1988, Iran continues to recover the remains of soldiers from western and southern parts of the country and also from Iraqi soil.
The war began when former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein invaded Iran in 1980.
By 1988, a million people had been killed in the conflict that featured trench warfare, Iranian human-wave attacks and chemical weapons assaults launched by Iraq.
In July 1988, Iran's former supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini accepted a U.N.-brokered cease-fire.
AP video shot by Mohsen Ganji
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