As the sea of mourners filled a colossal mosque courtyard in Tehran to see the body of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei for the last time, a mystery man in clerical robes stood at a distance, observing from a balcony the unfolding of the historic ceremony.
The man, standing at the side of a small group of people, appeared in a grainy video that went viral on social media, fueled by suspicions that he was the ayatollah’s son and Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei.
His face wasn’t clear in the video and beyond the robes, which were similar to those worn by many other Shiite clerics at the ceremony, there was nothing to indicate that it was Khamenei….