Thousands of mourners lined the streets of downtown Tehran on Saturday for the funeral of the head of the Revolutionary Guard and other top commanders and nuclear scientists killed during the war with Israel. The caskets of Guard’s chief Gen. Hossein Salami, the head of the Guard’s ballistic missile program, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh and others were driven on trucks along the capital’s Azadi Street. Salami and Hajizadeh were both killed on the first day of the war, June 13, as Israel launched a war it said meant to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, specifically targeting military commanders, scientists and nuclear facilities. Saeed Izadi, another prominent Revolutionary Guards commander killed by an Israeli attack, was “one of the main orchestrators of the October 7 massacre,” according to an IDF statement. The head of the Palestine Corps in Iran’s Quds Force, a branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Izadi “was responsible for increasing the financial funding from Iran to Hamas for terrorist activities against the State of Israel,” the military said. Saturday’s ceremonies were the first public funerals for top commanders since the cease-fire, and Iranian state television reported that they were for 60 people in total, including four women and four children. Authorities closed government offices to allow public servants to attend the ceremonies. Over 12 days before a cease-fire was declared on Tuesday, Israel claimed it killed around 30 Iranian commanders and 11 nuclear scientists, while hitting eight nuclear-related facilities and more than 720 military infrastructure sites. More than 1,000 people were killed, including at least 417 civilians, according to the Washington-based Human Rights Activists group. Iran fired more than 550 ballistic missiles at Israel, most of which were intercepted, but those that got through caused damage in many areas and killed 28 people. Saturday’s ceremonies were the first public funerals for top commanders since the cease-fire, and Iranian state television reported that they were for 60 people in total, including four women and four children. On Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said that in the last few days, he had been “working on the possible removal of sanctions” on Iran, in an attempt to give the country “a much better chance at a recovery.” According to Trump, “Iran has to get back into the world order flow, or things will only get worse for them.” “Why would Ayatollah Ali Khamenei say that he won the war with Israel, when he knows his statement is a lie?” he added. On Thursday, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, claimed victory over Israel in his first public statement since a cease-fire was declared in the war between the two countries. “The Islamic Republic was victorious and, in retaliation, delivered a hand slap to America’s face,” he said, in apparent reference to an Iranian missile attack on an American base in Qatar on Monday, which caused no casualties. The attack was in retaliation for the U.S. attacks on three Iranian nuclear sites on Sunday, using bunker-busting bombs in Fordow to penetrate the facility, mostly located deep underground.