"Nobody has heard his voice in months. How can a country carry on when its own leader has gone silent?" Jaipur, July 10, Since Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei was installed as Iran's Supreme Leader in early March, a week after his father, Ali Khamenei, was killed in US and Israeli strikes, he has not been seen, heard, or read from. No photograph, no recorded address, no written statement.

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