We have more on the state funeral being held in Tehran for around 60 people, including its military commanders and nuclear scientists.

The proceedings started at 8.00am local time (04.30 GMT) in the capital as government offices and many businesses were closed on Saturday for the occasion, AFP reports.

State TV showed footage of thousands of people wearing black clothes, waving Iranian flags and holding pictures of the slain military commanders.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, along with other senior government officials and military commanders - including Esmail Qaani, head of the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of the Revolutionary Guards - also attended the event.

The march began near Enghelab (Revolution) Square in central Tehran.

A patriotic eulogy blared from loudspeakers as the procession set out across the sprawling metropolis toward Azadi (Freedom) Square, 11 kilometres (seven miles) away.

Among the dead is Mohammad Bagheri, a major general in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and the second-in-command of the armed forces after the Iranian leader.

He will be buried alongside his wife and daughter, a journalist for a local media outlet, all killed in an Israeli attack.

Nuclear scientist Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, also killed in the attacks, will be buried with his wife.

Revolutionary Guards commander Hossein Salami, who was killed on the first day of the war, will also be laid to rest after Saturday’s ceremony - which will also honour at least 30 other top commanders.

Of the 60 people who are to be laid to rest after the ceremony, four are children and four are women.