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Iran's Successor Mojtaba Skips Out on Slain Father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's Funeral
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6:59Now PlayingAs Iranians continued to show their public mourning of the Islamic Republic's late supreme leader Ali Khamenei, the Ayatollah's three sons also paid their respects. Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, who took over for the Ayatollah after he was incinerated by the airstrikes that destroyed his compound, has not been seen since the attacks in the early days of the war, and was even a no-show at his father’s funeral.
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