By Garsha Vazirian

‘Revenge’ and resilience dominate coverage of martyred Leader’s rites

Largest funeral in modern history forces Western media to abandon ‘brittle Iran’ narrative

TEHRAN — When the martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, was laid to rest at the Imam Reza (AS) shrine in Mashhad on July 9, foreign news organizations had already spent an exhaustive week scrambling to report a staggering reality their corporate editorial lines never anticipated.