Iran's Quds Force chief Qaani reappears at funeral after rumours of death

Iranian commander Esmail Qaani on Tuesday appeared in public after weeks of absence to attend the funeral ceremony for general Abbas Nilforoushan, who was killed last month in Lebanon. Nilforoushan, a general in Iran's Revolutionary Guards, was killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut alongside Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah. Qaani – who heads the Quds Force, the Revolutionary Guards' foreign operations arm – had disappeared from public view and was rumoured in some media to have been targeted in an Israeli strike on Lebanon.