A huge number of people attended the funeral of the former supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. His three sons Mostafa Khamenei, Maysam Khamenei and Masoud Khamenei attended the event. His successor, Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, was absent from the funeral. Mojtaba’s non-participation in the program became a topic of discussion. Ali Khamenei will be cremated at the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad on July 9. Some international media reports claim that Mojtaba Khamenei is likely to attend the event.
Iranian President Masoud Pezheshkian, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Ahmad Vahidi participated in the funeral ceremony of Imam Khomeini at the Grand Mosque. Along with Khamenei’s coffin, coffins of other family members who died in the attack were also kept. In this, seeing the coffin of the 14-month-old granddaughter, many Iranians are shedding tears. Iranian officials estimate that more than a million people will participate in the mourning events taking place across the country.
Mojtaba Khamenei, newly installed as supreme leader, has not been seen in public since the war began. It seems that Mojtaba’s father was killed and Mojtaba was seriously injured in the US-Israeli airstrike on February 28. It seems that he did not attend the funeral due to the threat from Israel due to security reasons.