Iran Buries Its Longest-Serving Leader as Anger and Calls for Vengeance Rise
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For only the second time in nearly 50 years, Iran has buried a supreme leader. Ali Khamenei, who ruled the country as both a spiritual guide and an iron-fisted autocrat, led Iran for almost four decades. To many Iranians, he is the only leader they have ever known. His funeral was marked by intense emotion, with public displays of both grief and fury.