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.
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