The regime claims the Supreme Leader appears everywhere, yet cannot produce one authenticated second of him anywhere. Mojtaba Khamenei’s mother-in-law now claims she saw him in “complete health” at his father’s burial. The regime’s own footage shows his three brothers beside the casket. Mojtaba is nowhere to be seen. He was also absent from his wife’s funeral. Seven months after becoming supreme leader, there is still no authenticated photograph, video or voice recording of him. Yet officials suddenly claim he attended a burial and appeared at a public rally without a single camera capturing him. If Mojtaba can spend hours at a shrine or 30 minutes in a public square, he can record a ten-second message. Instead, relatives and clerics keep producing unverifiable stories on his behalf. The regime is manufacturing a political occultation. Mojtaba supposedly governs, appoints officials and directs a war while remaining as invisible as the Hidden Imam. This deception protects whoever is actually exercising power behind his name. If Mojtaba is dead or incapacitated, admitting it would trigger another succession crisis and expose the Revolutionary Guard as the real authority. The Islamic Republic is no longer governed by a visible supreme leader. It is governed by an armed apparatus hiding behind a rumor.