Since inheriting supreme authority over Iran following his father's assassination in February, Mojtaba Khamenei has not appeared publicly once — a silence that has allowed speculation about his health to grow into a geopolitical question. This week, Iranian state media released an undated video of him in apparent reasonable health, a direct counter to Israeli reports claiming he was hospitalized and near death. The gesture reveals something older than any single leader's condition: the way power, when it cannot show itself, must instead perform its own existence. In the space between proof and