Iran's Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei. Photo: AFP / Seyed
Iranian leaders joined prayers Sunday over the casket of late supreme leader Ali Khamenei during a second day of funeral ceremonies, but his son and successor, Mojtaba Khamenei, was conspicuously absent.
The elder Khamenei ruled the Islamic republic from 1989 until he was killed aged 86 in an airstrike on the first day of the US-Israeli war with Iran on February 28.
Officials including President Masoud Pezeshkian and Revolutionary Guards chief Ahmad Vahidi joined Sunday’s ceremonies, along with huge crowds paying their final respects in Tehran.
But Mojtaba has not appeared in public since his appointment in early March. He is said to have been wounded in the attack that killed his father.
