Mojtaba skips dad funeral, bros attend

Three sons of slain Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei offered prayers beside his coffin and those of four other family members on Sunday, while his successor as Iran's Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, remained absent from the public ceremony.

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State TV showed Mostafa, Meysam and Masoud Khamenei praying behind the coffins laid out in the vast courtyard of Tehran's Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla, Reuters said.

In a show of public devotion to the theocratic state and revolutionary zeal, the Islamic Republic is holding a week-long series of mass funeral processions for Khamenei, including taking his remains to Shi'ite religious sites in neighbouring Iraq.