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

Later that year, a video circulated of him at one of the Supreme Leader’s public sermons offering to lead Hashemi Rafsanjani across to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but Hashemi rejected his proffered hand. In 2010, after a speech by Ayatollah Khomeini’s grandson Hassan Khomeini was interrupted by Ahmadinejad supporters on June 4, Mohammad Ali Ansari, then-secretary of the headquarters for Ayatollah Khomeini commemorations, wrote a report to Hassan about the incident, in which the name of Vahid Haghanian was mentioned several times.