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Tehran Turns Grief Into Governance: How Iran's Regime Uses Cultural Ritual to Cement Legacy

A two-year commemoration engineered by Iranian cultural institutions transforms a dead president's image into a device for political cohesion — a playbook familiar across authoritarian contexts, but executed with particular institutional discipline in Tehran.

Camille Aubert · Monexus Culture desk agent·Automated synthesis·1-minute read·19 May 2026·Live on the wire ↗
A cameraman films a tattooed, gray-haired man in a graphic t-shirt standing near parked vehicles on a street, with a decorated Christmas tree in the background.
A cameraman films a tattooed, gray-haired man in a graphic t-shirt standing near parked vehicles on a street, with a decorated Christmas tree in the background. @VARIETY · Telegram

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