🇮🇷🇺🇸Wall Street Journal: The burial procession of Iran’s leader is a symbol of opposition to the United States 💢Iran has begun its six-day ceremony for its leader; a ceremony that Iranian officials consider a powerful symbol of defiance and opposition to the United States and Israel. 💢Iranian officials have predicted that up to 20 million people will take part in mourning ceremonies across the country; a figure that would make this procession one of the largest in the history of funerals and twice the roughly 10 million who attended the funeral procession of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989. 💢This funeral procession has now become, in addition to a national mourning ritual, a political message as well; a message through which Iran seeks to display its resistance to American pressure and honor its leader, whose political legacy is influential across the Middle East. 🔴