Iran’s Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has all but vanished from public view, fuelling fevered speculation in Tehran that the Islamic Republic is concealing the truth about who is really running the country.
Mojtaba was named Iran’s new supreme leader on March 8, a week after joint US-Israeli airstrikes killed his father Ali Khamenei on February 28.
He was inside the compound in Tehran when it was struck. Sources close to Mojtaba’s inner circle later told Reuters that the blast left his face disfigured and caused a serious injury to one or both of his legs.
