Thousands attend funeral for Revolutionary Guard colonel shot dead in Iran

Relatives mourn over the flag draped coffin of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Col. Hassan Sayyad (AP)

Thousands of mourners have poured into the streets of Tehran to pay their respects to a senior Revolutionary Guard member fatally shot by two gunmen on a motorcycle at the weekend.

The killing of Col Hassan Sayyad Khodaei in Tehran on Sunday bore the hallmarks of previous deadly shootings in Iran which were blamed on Israel, such as those targeting the country’s nuclear scientists.