{"id":50771,"date":"2026-07-06T08:46:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=50771"},"modified":"2026-07-06T08:46:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:01:55","slug":"three-sons-of-irans-slain-leader-khamenei-appear-at-funeral-not-his-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/three-sons-of-irans-slain-leader-khamenei-appear-at-funeral-not-his-successor\/","title":{"rendered":"Three sons of Iran’s slain leader Khamenei appear at funeral, not his successor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reuters :\u00a0 Three sons of slain Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prayed beside \u200bhis coffin and those of four other family members on Sunday, but Mojtaba, the son who succeeded him as Iran’s supreme leader, did not make an appearance.<\/p>\n

State TV showed Mostafa, Meysam and \u200cMasoud Khamenei praying behind the coffins laid out in the vast courtyard of Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla, a sprawling religious complex.<\/p>\n

Their father, alongside several other members of the family, was killed in an airstrike when the United States and Israel launched a war on Iran on February 28.<\/p>\n

The conflict, which raged for several weeks before the sides reached a shaky ceasefire, has caused death and destruction across the region and left Iran’s theocratic government, backed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, in \u200bpower.<\/p>\n

In a show of public devotion to the state and revolutionary zeal, the Islamic Republic is staging a week of mass funeral processions for Khamenei, including taking his remains to Shi’ite religious sites \u200bin neighbouring Iraq.<\/p>\n

After a day lying in state indoors for senior Iranian leaders and foreign officials to visit, Khamenei’s coffin was displayed outdoors on Saturday under \u2060glass, along with those of his daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law and 14-month-old granddaughter.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, tens of thousands more mourners, including soldiers, seminary students and ordinary men and women filed into the Mosalla to pay their respects \u200bto Khamenei and his family, waving flags emblazoned with promises of revenge against America and Israel.<\/p>\n

Others prayed in unison at the complex named after Iran’s first supreme leader Khomeini, whom Khamenei succeeded in 1989. The farewell ceremony \u200bwas extended by about an hour to 10 p.m. (1830 GMT) due to the high number of people taking part, state media reported.<\/p>\n

There has still been no public sighting or image released of Mojtaba, said to have been injured in the attack that killed his father and the other family members on February 28, when Israel and the U.S. bombed Iranian targets at the start of the war.<\/p>\n

Mojtaba Khamenei’s face was disfigured and he suffered a significant injury to one or \u200bboth legs, people close to his inner circle told Reuters.
\nOne disappointed mourner said she had hoped to see the new supreme leader during the funeral events.<\/p>\n

Item 1 of 8 Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian with officials attend a prayer during a public farewell ceremony to pay their respects to late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on February 28 in Israeli and U.S. airstrikes, at the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla, in Tehran, Iran July 5, 2026.<\/p>\n

“Until the last moment, before the prayer began, I kept \u200btelling those around me that I hoped (Mojtaba Khamenei) himself would come. That was our only wish,” a young woman wearing makeup and sunglasses told the semi-official Tasnim news agency in an interview.<\/p>\n

A ceasefire has suspended the four-month-old war under \u200can agreement with Washington \u2060that Iran’s authorities say will ultimately bring huge economic benefits, in line with what they describe as a victory over a superpower.<\/p>\n

During the war, more than 3,000 people were killed, including many of Iran’s most senior politicians and military commanders. Military bases and major infrastructure projects were destroyed causing billions of dollars in damage.<\/p>\n

But Iran successfully struck U.S. bases in the region, inflicted pain on the Gulf Arab countries that host them, and asserted its control of the Strait of Hormuz, causing a spike in global energy prices, which U.S. President Donald Trump said led him to push faster for peace.<\/p>\n

The interim deal reached last month includes the unfreezing of \u200bbillions of dollars in Iranian assets held abroad, and \u200bwaivers from financial sanctions that had brought \u2060Iran’s economy to its knees.
\nTrump told the Axios news website that peace talks had been paused for a week for the events surrounding the funeral.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf prayed behind the coffins. Masoud Khamenei was seen crying and wiping his tears with a keffiyeh \u2013 the chequered \u200bscarf that is a symbol in Iran of militant revolutionary ideals and solidarity with Palestinians \u2013 as an imam recited funeral prayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reuters :\u00a0 Three sons of slain Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prayed beside \u200bhis coffin and those of four other family members on Sunday, but Mojtaba, the son who succeeded him as Iran’s supreme leader, did not make an appearance. State TV showed Mostafa, Meysam and \u200cMasoud Khamenei praying behind the coffins laid out in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50773,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50771\/revisions\/50773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}