Welcome to the subscriber-exclusive daily Inside Scoop newsletter. Richard Engel is on the ground for the slain ayatollah’s funeral, seeing for the first time life in Iran after the four-month war. What he’s seeing, though, seems to be a political rally cloaked as a funeral procession, and the opposition voices who were once out in the streets are now hiding in the shadows. Plus, what red card? The U.S. men’s soccer team has its top scorer back on after FIFA reversed a red-card suspension last week. But at what cost? Let’s get into it.
Millions have been packing the streets of Tehran to attend slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s funeral procession, their numbers a show of support for Iran’s ruling regime. They’re tearful over his death at the beginning of the war and vengeful against President Donald Trump and the U.S.
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