Thousands of mourners thronged the streets of Iran’s capital, Tehran, on Saturday at a funeral procession for about 60 people killed in the war with Israel, including some of the country’s top military commanders and nuclear scientists.

Live coverage by Iranian state television showed streets that were barren during the 12-day war now packed for the state funeral. Participants waved green, red and white Iranian flags, red banners with religious slogans or branches of white flowers.

The often-heard public chants in the Islamic Republic, “Death to America” and “Death to Israel,” rang out as trucks with coffins inched along the route between two of Tehran’s main squares. From there, the coffins were expected to be transferred for burial at various cemeteries. Some of the deceased will be interred with their families.

There was no sign of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but President Masoud Pezeshkian marched in the procession.

The funeral was a reminder of the heavy toll Iran had paid not only in losses from the top echelon of its military forces but also from its contentious nuclear program. Among the more than 600 people killed in the Israeli attacks, 90 were military personnel, according to Iranian state television. The dead included at least 11 prominent nuclear scientists.

The coffins were covered with Iranian flags and adorned with rose petals. One truck held the coffins of children, according to Press TV, a state media outlet. As the dead passed, mourners reached out to kiss or touch the coffins.

State news media did not immediately release a list of all of those included in the funeral, the largest from the war thus far. But the Tasnim news agency, which is affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, reported that some of the top officers in the Iranian military were being laid to rest.

Official coverage of the funeral included a striking image of about 40 coffins before they joined the procession, all stacked one atop the other in rows of 10, with a picture of each victim affixed to the end of the coffin.

Among those honored were Gen. Hossein Salami, the commander in chief of the Guard — Iran’s powerful military force — and Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of the Guard’s air force unit. Hajizadeh was seen by Israeli officials as one of Iran’s most intelligent military commanders, whose death would have been a real blow to the country’s military operations.

Both were killed in the first days of the war.

Brig. Gen. Esmail Ghaani, the commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force, attended the funeral.

The Quds Force is a branch of the Revolutionary Guard that oversees Iran’s proxy militias around the Middle East, including Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis in Yemen and militias in Iraq.

One senior figure in the Quds Force, Mohammed Said Izadi, was among those included in the funeral. The Israeli military said he was a longtime target of Israeli intelligence who oversaw Iran’s ties to groups like Hamas, which led the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel that ignited the war in Gaza.

Israeli officials said Izadi led the Palestinian affairs branch of the Quds Force. He was one of the few people who knew in advance about Hamas’ plan to launch the surprise Oct. 7 attack, The New York Times reported last year.

Maj. Gen. Ali Shadmani, another top military commander, was also commemorated at the funeral. The commander he replaced, Gholamali Rashid, had just been killed by Israel. He was named to head the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, the most important economic arm of the Guard.

Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, the chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, was mourned Saturday, as were some nuclear scientists.

After the United States joined the Israeli attack on Iran last weekend by bombing three nuclear sites, President Donald Trump declared that Iran’s nuclear program had sustained major damage. But other assessments have been more mixed.

Iran has long held that its nuclear development program was for peaceful purposes, but Israel said it started the war June 13 to take out nuclear and military targets.

Khamenei appeared to break an extended public silence to issue a statement posted Thursday claiming victory and criticizing the United States. That irked Trump, who had helped push through a ceasefire.

Trump told a news conference Friday that he would consider attacking Iran again, while on social media he wrote that he would drop his effort to have sanctions against Iran removed and suggested that the supreme leader should be grateful that his life was spared.