The muted atmosphere revealed little of the spectacular public grief of a public figure.
on Monday, though the muted atmosphere revealed little of the spectacular public grief that has accompanied the deaths of other senior figures in the Republic’s 45-year history.
The authorities’ handling of an array of political, social and economic crises has deepened the gap between the clerical rulers and society. But there was little of the emotional rhetoric that accompanied the deaths of publicly revered figures, like Qasem Soleimani, a senior commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards killed by a US missile in 2020 in Iraq, whose funeral drew huge crowds of mourners, weeping with sorrow and rage.
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