Millions of mourners highlight regime’s strong social base despite Iran’s divisions

Defiance of ‘maximum pressure’ from the US legitimises government and adds to sense of freer negotiating hand As the multi-purpose, multinational funeral of Iran’s former supreme leader Ali Khamenei moved to the Jamkaran mosque in the holy city of Qom, and then to Najaf in Iraq,…

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