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In Iran, a massive cemetery struggles to keep up with virus

by Mohammad Nasiri
| November 11, 2020 1:09 AM

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — For over half a century, a massive graveyard on the edge of Iran's capital has provided a final resting place for this country's war dead, its celebrities and artists, its thinkers and leaders and all those in between.

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