Where is the new guy? Mojtaba Khamenei skips his dad’s funeral
Iran is holding a massive, multi-day funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, but the guy who is supposed to be running the show now is a total no-show.
So, Iran is currently holding a massive, theatrical funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who got killed at the start of the war back in February. The whole country has ground to a halt, tens of thousands of people are marching, and representatives from seventy countries have flown in. It is a huge deal.
But there is one tiny, incredibly awkward detail: the new Supreme Leader, his son Mojtaba Khamenei, is completely missing from the funeral.
You would think a guy taking over the family business would want to show up for his dad's send-off. Well, rumor has it he got hit hard in those initial U.S. airstrikes that kicked off the war. He has not made a single public appearance since he was named the new big boss, which is definitely not a great look for a guy trying to project absolute power.
The rest of the regime's elite—the president, the parliament speaker, the head of the Revolutionary Guard—are all there, carrying the coffin and sweating under the Tehran sun. But the throne is currently occupied by a ghost.
Nothing says "stable transition of power" like a brand-new Supreme Leader who might actually be in a coma or hiding in a bunker.
Source: UPI
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