After days of tightly choreographed mourning in the Iranian capital, where state television has followed every stage of Khamenei's farewell.
Ali Khamenei's coffin lay under glass alongside those of his daughter, his son-in-law, his daughter-in-law and his 14‑month‑old granddaughter.
According to people close to his inner circle, Mojtaba suffered severe injuries in the February strike that killed his father and other family members.
With no independent images and no on‑the‑record medical update, his exact condition remains unverified and should be treated with caution.
The national metro network reported seven million trips from late Saturday to Sunday morning as people flocked to the funeral centre.
It is both a mourning ritual and a carefully produced television serial about resilience, legitimacy and the handover of power.
Yet the central character in that succession story, Mojtaba Khamenei, remains resolutely out of shot. »