Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei was absent from public view on Sunday as his father, former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and four family members were honored with state funeral prayers in Tehran. While state television broadcast photos of Khamenei’s three sons praying with Iran’s political and military leadership, Mojtaba’s continued absence drew attention when Iranian state media said he would not attend the funeral ceremony due to security concerns.The prayer took place at the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque, where Khamenei’s body has been kept for public mourning and official farewell ceremonies since Saturday.State television showed Mustafa, Maysom and Masoud Khamenei praying behind coffins in Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque. According to the AP, 97-year-old Shia cleric Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani later led the funeral prayer, which was attended by the three brothers along with Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, Revolutionary Guard major Gen. Ahmed Wahidi and Quds Force commander Ismail Qani.The new supreme leader is expected to skip the six-day funeral ceremony due to security reasons amid continued Israeli threats to assassinate him. Despite not being seen in public since the succession, in a written statement, Mojtaba authorized the memorandum of understanding signed by the Iranian and US presidents despite having “different viewpoints” after receiving assurances from senior Iranian officials that it would protect “the rights of the Iranian nation and the resistance front”.Mojtaba has not been seen in public since the February 28 attack, which killed his father and four other family members during Israeli and US attacks on Iranian targets at the start of the war. No official image of the new supreme leader has been released since. People close to him told Reuters that his face was disfigured and he suffered serious injuries to one or both legs in the attack.Funeral ceremonies began on Saturday after Khamenei’s body lay in state in honor of senior Iranian leaders and foreign officials. Later, his coffin was displayed under glass outside along with his daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law and 14-month-old granddaughter.During Sunday prayers, state television showed Massoud Khamenei wiping tears with a keffiyeh as funeral prayers were being read. A crowd gathered in Mosalla throughout the night, many mourners crying and some beating their chests. Iran’s metro network said it recorded seven million trips between late Saturday night and Sunday morning as people traveled to central Tehran.The funeral procession will continue on Monday in the form of a massive procession through central Tehran, according to Iranian officials, before Khamenei’s remains are taken to the seminary city of Qom on Tuesday. The body will then be taken to the Shia holy cities of Najaf and Karbala in Iraq for further ceremonies on Wednesday, before being returned to Iran for a final procession on Thursday and buried in Mashhad near the shrine of Imam Reza.