Mojtaba Khamenei attended the funeral ceremony of Vahid Haghanian's brother

Haghanian then appeared in public to protest against remarks made by Eshagh Jahangiri, the first vice president under Hassan Rouhani, about the collapse of the much-vaunted Mehr Housing Project in Kermanshah. Haghanian called Jahangiri's remarks a "political game" and indeed said: "God damn Mr. Jahangiri." Despite all this precedent, Vahid Haghanian's note about the recent presidential election was unexpected. He expressed his thanks and appreciation to Mohsen Rezaei, Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi and Abdolnasser Hemmati for standing despite the odds, and called Saeed Jalili and Alireza Zakani, who had both dropped out before the vote, mere “cover candidates”.