Rather than confronting the official narrative head-on, many posts mocked the opaque and unusual circumstances of Mojtaba’s rise – especially the emergence of a leader who, for many Iranians, remains almost entirely unseen.
The jokes fall broadly into several recurring themes.
‘A leader no one has seen’
Many jokes focus on Mojtaba Khamenei’s near-total absence from public life.
Unlike most senior political figures, Mojtaba has rarely appeared in speeches or interviews, and only a handful of recordings of his voice are publicly known.
Some users turned this into a technological joke. One widely shared post said:
“There isn’t even enough audio of Mojtaba Khamenei for AI to train on to make a fake voice of him.”
Others…