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UEFA ACTUALLY CAME OUT WITH A STATEMENT EARLIER TODAY AND THEY BASICALLY SAID, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A MOCKERY, YOU KNOW, THE RULES ARE THE RULES. HEY EVERYBODY, AND WELCOME TO HERE'S THE SCOOP FROM NBC NEWS. I'M YASSIN VOSSOUGHIAN. SO TODAY ON THE SHOW, THE SOCCER WORLD IS SEEING RED AFTER FIFA DECIDED TO ALLOW US STRIKER FARIN BAIGIN TO PLAY IN TONIGHT'S WORLD CUP MATCH. DESPITE A RED CARD IN THE LAST GAME. WHAT ROLE DID PRESIDENT TRUMP PLAY?

PLUS, RUSSIA HAS LAUNCHED ANOTHER SERIES OF DEADLY ATTACKS ON THE UKRAINE CAPITAL KIEV, AHEAD OF THE NATO SUMMIT. WHY GETTING THE DEFENSE MISSILES THAT PRESIDENT ZELENSKY NEEDS DESPERATELY RIGHT NOW IS A HARD ASK. UP FIRST THOUGH, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF IRANIANS FLOODED THE STREETS OF TEHRAN ON MONDAY FOR THE FUNERAL PROCESSION OF AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI. KHAMENEI AND SEVERAL OF HIS FAMILY MEMBERS WERE KILLED IN TARGETED AIRSTRIKES LAUNCHED BY THE US AND ISRAEL ON FEBRUARY TWENTY-EIGHTH.

THE CROWD AT HIS FUNERAL PROCESSION HELD SIGNS AND CHANTED SLOGANS, EXPRESSING THEIR ANGER AT THE US AND ISRAEL FOR THE SUPREME LEADER'S KILLING. MEANWHILE, TALKS BETWEEN THE US AND IRAN TO END THE WAR ARE ON HOLD UNTIL THE FUNERAL PROCEEDINGS FINISH ON THURSDAY. SO WHAT MESSAGE IS IRAN SENDING WITH THIS MASSIVE FUNERAL? AND COULD THE ANGER TOWARDS THE US COMPLICATE THE NEXT STAGES OF THESE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS? FOR THIS, I WANT TO BRING IN RICHARD ENGEL, NBC NEWS CHIEF FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT.

HE'S BEEN REPORTING ON THE FUNERAL PROCESSIONS FROM THE GROUND IN TEHRAN. HEY RICHARD, GOOD TO JOIN YOU. HOW ARE YOU? I'M GOOD. IT'S GREAT TO HAVE YOU. YOU WENT TO IRAN BEFORE THIS WAR BEGAN, AND THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME BACK. HOW ARE YOU SEEING THINGS ERENTLY RIGHT NOW? SO, UM, YEAH, I'VE BEEN OVER THE LAST 12 MONTHS OR 15 MONTHS TO IRAN, MAYBE HALF A DOZEN TIMES, UM, AND I'M, I'M NOTICING A MAJOR DIFFERENCE NOW, UH, SINCE THE END OF MAJOR COMBAT OPERATIONS.

UH, THE GOVERNMENT IS MUCH MORE CONFIDENT. UH, THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ON THE STREET TODAY. UH, THE GOVERNMENT IS TALKING ABOUT MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. UM, I THINK THAT'S VERY POSSIBLE. THIS IS NOT JUST A FUNERAL, THIS IS A POLITICAL RALLY. THIS IS A WAY FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO SHOW THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP AND PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU OF ISRAEL FAILED, THAT THEY ARE. STILL IN POWER, AND IN MANY WAYS THEY ARE IN A STRONGER POSITION THAN THEY HAVE BEEN IN MANY YEARS.

THAT THAT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS UNIVERSALLY LIKED, ABSOLUTELY NOT. IT'S DEEPLY DIVIDED, BUT THE GOVERNMENT SUPPORTERS, UH, FEEL MORE EMBOLDENED, MORE CONFIDENT, AND YOU COULD, YOU CAN SEE, I COULD SEE THAT OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS. SO YOU'RE SEEING A RENEWED STRENGTH, UM, AMIDST. THE GOVERNMENT, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, AND MUCH SUPPORT IT SEEMS FOR THE GOVERNMENT IN THE STREETS. AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE PEOPLE THAT WOULD SHOW UP FOR AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI'S FUNERAL WOULD BE SUPPORTERS, WOULD BE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS.

THESE ARE NOT THE PEOPLE THAT WE WOULD SEE IN THE STREETS PROTESTING.