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A display of power and a call for revenge

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'A display of power and a call for revenge'​

TEHRAN - Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the late Leader of the Islamic Revolution, was laid to rest in the holy shrine of Imam Reza in the city of Mashhad on July 9, four months after he was assassinated in a U.S.-Israeli strike on his residence. The attack also claimed the lives of several of his family members, including his 18-month-old granddaughter.

'A display of power and a call for revenge'

Qom to Mashhad A countermap in motion

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Qom to Mashhad: A counter-map in motion​

MADRID - To name a territory is to claim it. The inscription of a name upon a landscape is never a neutral act of description; it is the imposition of an order. Modern cartography and toponymy executed a foundational violence when they converted the living continuity of inhabited spaces into the rigid grammar of property.

Qom to Mashhad: A counter-map in motion