Iran to bury slain Supreme Leader in culmination of mass funeral
The burial will be the culmination of a week of funeral events in both Iran and Iraq that the Islamic Republic's clerical leaders have been encouraging huge crowds to attend in an effort to vaunt the might and ideological fire of their theocratic state.
Iran buries its slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday at the country's holiest shrine, with his son and successor Mojtaba Khamenei still hidden from public view after being disfigured in the strike that killed his father.
KHAMENEI'S LONG RULE AND DISPUTED LEGACYThe funeral comes at a critical moment for Iran, turning the page of nearly four decades of Khamenei's rule and months after the latest round of mass nationwide protests against the Islamic Republic.
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