Iran’s new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei appears not to be in attendance on the second day of his father’s funeral in Tehran.
Three of Ali Khamenei’s sons — Masoud, Meysam and Mostafa — who hadn’t been seen since the war, are present at the mass prayer event.
Khamenei has not been seen in public since he was seriously injured — and his father, wife, and son were killed — in the opening strikes of the US-Israeli bombing campaign in Iran on February 28.
According to a New York Times report yesterday, Mojtaba Khamenei was absent from a memorial for his wife in Tehran on Wednesday.
He seeks to attend his father’s burial on Thursday in Mashhad and perform funeral rites, but has so far been refused due to concerns he could be targeted by Israel, the Times said, citing two unnamed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members and a person involved with planning the multi-day funeral.
BY: The Times Union – Agencies contributed to this report.
