Where is the new Supreme Leader of Iran?

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On day two of the funeral proceedings for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed in February by an Israeli airstrike, his son and regime successor, Mojtaba Khamenei, is still nowhere to be seen. His absence fuelled further speculation that he is himself no longer alive, or was gravely injured in the same strike that killed his father on the first day of the war. Mojtaba’s brothers were present at the Grand Mosalla on Sunday, as was Ahmad Vahidi, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Mojtaba was also absent from an earlier memorial ceremony for his wife, Zahra Hadad-Adel, held on Wednesday, who was also killed along with their teenage son in the strikes. Across the weekend, tens of thousands of mourners chanted “revenge, revenge”, the New York Times reported. On Monday, Ali Khamenei’s body is expected to be carried through the centre of Tehran in a public procession.