When Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was buried this month, a handful of Americans flew to Tehran to mourn him. The commentator Jackson Hinkle led “Down with the USA” chants from a rally stage. Calla Walsh, a former campaign volunteer for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), went on Iranian state television to call the man who had spent six years ordering an American president’s assassination “the greatest anti-imperialist leader” of her lifetime.
Max Blumenthal of The Grayzone — an outlet whose managing editor was paid by Iran’s state broadcaster, as the Washington Post reported — drummed for the cameras and filed admiring dispatches.
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