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A state funeral is being held in Iran for about 60 people, including military commanders and nuclear scientists, killed during the 12-day conflict with Israel.
Coffins draped in the Iranian flag, with portraits of the deceased commanders, were surrounded by large crowds of people near Enghelab Square in central Tehran.
The conflict ended with a ceasefire earlier this week, after the US became directly involved by bombing key nuclear sites in Iran.
Among those being buried is Mohammad Bagheri, the highest-ranking military officer in Iran, who was chief of staff of Iran's armed forces.
Large crowds of mourners dressed in black chanted slogans, waved Iranian flags and held portraits of those killed.
Saturday's funeral will also be attended by Hossein Salami, the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as well as a number of nuclear scientists such as Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, who was the director of Azad University in Tehran.
This comes after US President Donald Trump said he would "absolutely" consider bombing Iran again.
Responding to a question from the BBC's Nomia Iqbal at a White House press conference on Friday, he said he would attack the country "without question" if intelligence concluded that Iran could enrich uranium to worrying levels.
Trump has also repeated his claims that Iran is "destroyed," writing: "Why would the so-called 'Supreme Leader' Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, of the war-torn country of Iran, so openly and foolishly say that he won the war with Israel, when he knows his statement is a lie?"
Trump also claimed he knew "exactly where he [Khamenei] was hiding," saying he "wouldn't let Israel, or the U.S. Armed Forces... end his life."
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