CNN: In his first message since the funeral of his father and predecessor, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said in a written statement attributed to him on state media that “revenge is the demand of our nation and must certainly be carried out.”
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His absence from the main funeral ceremonies for former leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was so complete there was not even a written message, leaving people to guess at his plans for Iran at a turbulent time in the Islamic Republic’s 47-year history…