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Massive Iranian Funeral Contradicts US Intelligence Assessments of Regime Weakness
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"DEATH TO AMERICA, ISRAEL" Chants As MASSIVE IRAN CROWDS Mourn Ayatollah
"We were told that the Iranians would just like the Iraqis would greet us with you know candies and flowers and would celebrate uh the our assassination of common. Instead, you have one of the largest uh gatherings of people like in the world and after one of the largest um slaughterings of Iranians in January right? Which is pro, right? Which is why we thought they were weak right? And it would be easy for the Kurds to come in and people would overthrow them. This is what it looks like now right?"
Tens of thousands packed Tehran for Supreme Leader Khamenei's funeral chanting death to America, contradicting US and Israeli intelligence assessments that Iranians would welcome regime change. The massive show of support came despite at least 3,000 deaths in January crackdowns that US officials believed demonstrated regime weakness. The hosts noted this mirrors Iraq war predictions that Iraqis would greet Americans with flowers, revealing similar flawed intelligence assumptions about Iranian public sentiment.
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