TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, will travel to Lebanon for the funeral of long-time Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday, Iranian media reported.

Tens of thousands of people are expected to turn out in Beirut for the commemoration of the Iran-backed terror group’s leader.

An Israeli airstrike killed Nasrallah in September at the start of an all-out war between his group and Israel after roughly a year of lower-level conflict.

The massive strike on Hezbollah’s south Beirut stronghold also killed Abbas Nilforoushan, a senior commander in Iran’s Quds Force — the foreign operations arm of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Ghalibaf “along with several parliamentarians and state officials will leave on Sunday for Lebanon to attend Nasrallah’s funeral,” member of parliament Alireza Salimi told the official IRNA news agency on Saturday.

On Friday evening, the Fars news agency reported that Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi would also attend the ceremony.

Sunday’s funeral will also be for Hashem Safieddine, a senior Hezbollah figure who had been chosen........

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