Iran’s Supreme Leader has led prayers in Tehran at the funeral of the late President Ebrahim Raisi, as the clerical establishment hurries to organise an early election that could further erode its legitimacy amid growing public discontent.
The June 28 vote to replace Raisi, killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday, will need to galvanise a population that showed little interest in the 2021 ballot that gave the hardline cleric the presidency, a role that oversees day-to-day government.
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