Intimate portraits capture grief and defiance at Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Tehran funeral

tktk first hand account of NBC News producer in Iranian capital

TEHRAN, Iran — As Iran geared up for the state funeral of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a couple of weeks ago, NBC News producer Marc Smith arrived in the country’s capital armed with a vintage camera that predates the Islamic Revolution.

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