Manufactured Grief: How Fact-Checkers Exposed the Iranian State’s Funeral Fraud
Four-minute read Following the February 28 assassination of Ali Khamenei in a U.S.-Israeli airstrike, the Iranian state apparatus faced a profound internal crisis. Competing factions delayed funeral proceedings for 131 days until a mid-June ceasefire. When mourning finally initiated in early July, the imperative to project unwavering public support fell to a deeply fractured media and internal security apparatus. Rather than reflecting […]
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