Mojtaba Khamenei absent from wife Zahra Haddad-Adel's memorial service in Tehran as Iran mourns family losses during political transition.

The Quiet Absence: Iran’s New Supreme Leader Missed His Wife’s Farewell

In Tehran the other day, they said goodbye to Zahra Haddad-Adel. She was the wife of Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei. But he wasn’t there. Not standing with the family, not in any of the pictures from the memorial. His own wife’s farewell, and he was absent. It feels so heartbreakingly human, you know? […]

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