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Iran Holds Funeral for Family Killed in U.S. Strike on Qeshm Island

A funeral was held for a couple and their two-year-old child killed in a U.S. strike on Iran’s Qeshm Island, with chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf vowing retaliation.

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The deaths and Iran’s retaliation threat could further destabilize already fraught Iran-U.S. relations.

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