While, shortly after the killing of Ali Khamenei, the former leader of the Islamic Republic, in Israeli and U.S. airstrikes on his residence, a wedding ceremony for forces supporting the government was being held on the capital’s streets, “Ahmad Alamolhoda,” Friday Prayer leader in Mashhad, says eight months after this event: “We buried our master under the ground; now should we go and celebrate? A blood avenger doesn’t celebrate.”

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