NYT called out for headline calling Ayatollah Khamenei 'hard-line cleric' who made Iran into regional power

The New York Times was called out on social media over its headline about the death of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Saturday.

The New York Times' headline about the Khamenei's death read, "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hard-Line Cleric Who Made Iran a Regional Power, Is Dead at 86." The Times also described the supreme leader as "avuncular and magnanimous" in its obituary. 

"With his spectacles, Palestinian kaffiyeh, long robes and silver beard, Ayatollah Khamenei cast...