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Ali Khamenei

Ruth Michaelson

Iran’s ‘funeral of the century’ for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei draws regime’s top brass out of hiding

The nation’s political heads emerged to attend the week-long tribute, but his son and successor was still absent

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