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

Abolfazl Fateh, another member of Mousavi's campaign, also wrote in his 2009 election diaries that at 11 pm on polling day, he delivered a letter from Mir Hossein Mousavi to the Supreme Leader to Vahid Haghanian. From the latter’s remarks, he wrote, he learned that “the election should be considered over." At Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s second inauguration ceremony, and in the absence of senior political figures such as Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, it was Vahid Haghanian who instead stood next to Ayatollah Khamenei and Ahmadinejad and facilitated the swearing-in.