Iran holds funeral for Ali Khamenei: Attendees 'hardline factions' of society, specialist says
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader for over three decades who was killed in an airstrike, is being honored in elaborate state funeral ceremonies expected to draw between 15 and 20 million mourners to Tehran's central public and religious venues. Foreign dignitaries and senior Iranian officials are attending the multi-day event, which will conclude with Khamenei's burial in Mashhad, his birthplace.
Progressive: Progressive-leaning outlets use 'assassinated' and frame the funeral as Iran's geopolitical response to US-Israeli military intervention.
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Hundreds of thousands of mourners gathered in Tehran on Saturday for the start of a dayslong funeral for Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Tara Kangarlou, a global affairs journalist and author of The Heartbeat of Iran, said most attendees were "more emboldened, hardline factions of the society," making the crowd unrepresentative of broader public attitudes toward the regime. ...