It's the question that has swirled around Iran's de facto Supreme Leader since he secured the job in those extraordinary circumstances on March 9. Instead, a state TV anchor read aloud a statement he had supposedly written, while a still photograph of the new Supreme Leader was displayed on screen. While the top tier of the Iranian regime including his own brothers attended, Mojtaba was nowhere to be seen. So, is Mojtaba alive? A gay Supreme Leader of a regime that has spent decades imprisoning and hanging men for homosexuality, if true, the irony is painful.