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Iran's 'martyr leader' frame and the information war the West keeps losing

PressTV's coverage of an assassinated successor-designate is doing more than eulogising a cleric. It is setting the terms of a regional information contest the Western press is barely contesting.

A massive crowd waves red and Iranian flags while surrounding a green casket covered in flower petals during a public funeral procession.
A massive crowd waves red and Iranian flags while surrounding a green casket covered in flower petals during a public funeral procession. @NYT > WORLD NEWS · Telegram

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