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Ashura in Tehran: ritual as statecraft
As mourning processions fill Keshvar Dost Street on the 10th of Muharram, Tehran's ceremonial calendar doubles as a working theory of state legitimacy — and a reminder that, in the Islamic Republic, ritual and rule share a single grammar.
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This editorial synthesis draws on the following public wire/social posts:
- https://t.me/Khamenei_en
- https://t.me/Khamenei_en
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashura
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karbala
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muharram
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