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Associated Press

Funerals begin for Iran’s late president and foreign minister. Mourners gathered on May 21 for days of funerals and processions for Iran’s president and foreign minister, among others killed in a helicopter crash on May 19. For Iran’s Shiite theocracy, mass demonstrations have been crucial since millions thronged the streets of Tehran to welcome Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979 during the Islamic Revolution. Whether processions for President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, and others killed draw large crowds remains in question, as Mr. Raisi won his office in the lowest-turnout election in the country’s history and presided over dissent crackdowns.

In the Iranian leadership’s conduct of internal elections and foreign relations, the primary focus has been the continuity of the Islamic Republic. President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash, embodied that continuity.