Tens of thousands of people have paid tribute to Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan in a mass funeral ceremony held in his home town of Isfahan.

According to The Iran Project, Nilforoushan was a former senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) who was assassinated in a recent Israeli aggression on Lebanon.

The ceremony on Thursday saw black-clad mourners, in their thousands, carrying Nilforoushan's coffin, draped with the national Iranian flag, through the main streets and squares in the central Iranian city.

the large crowd attended the funeral service with the flags of Iran, Palestine and the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah in their hands as they chanted the slogans of “Death to Israel,” and “Death to America,” in solidarity with the people of Gaza and Lebanon and in support of the resistance front.

The top commander was laid to rest in Isfahan’s Golestan Shohada cemetery.