Iran’s ‘new Supreme Leader’ ‘treated for impotency’ in UK hospitals | UK | News
Mojtaba faced serious pressure to produce heirs after having difficulty conceiving a child with his wife. (Image: Wiki Commons)
According to US intelligence, the person alleged to be Iran’s new religious leader received impotence treatment in private hospitals in England.
Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, is believed to have been chosen by Iran’s Assembly of Experts as the successor to his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an Israeli attack in Tehran on Saturday.
A classified briefing sent by the US State Department to the US Embassy in London in 2008 and later disclosed by WikiLeaks revealed that Mojtaba faced significant pressure to produce heirs after experiencing difficulties conceiving a child with his wife. He was treated four times for “impotence” at London’s Wellington and Cromwell Hospitals, according to the document.
The document states that Mojtaba married relatively late in 2004, “where his impotence was reportedly treated and eventually resolved during three extended visits to England.”
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“Her family expected Mojtaba to have a child quickly, but she needed a fourth visit to the UK for medical treatment,” the document said. The statement is included. “After staying for two months, his wife became pregnant. A healthy boy was born in Iran, named Ali from his grandfather.”
The intelligence report also found that he “worked in the shadow of Mojtaba’s father in the Supreme Leader’s office,” accompanied him on domestic travels, and had “a reasonable degree of control over access to his father,” the Daily Mail reported.
Mojtaba has been described as “widely viewed within the regime as a capable and strong leader and administrator who may one day succeed in achieving at least some of the national leadership. His father may also see him in that light.” However, the document stated that he was perceived as religiously weak.
Mojtaba was described as “widely viewed within the regime as a capable individual” (Image: ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH/EPA/Shutterstock)
Mojtaba Khamenei is the second eldest son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Although he is not a high-ranking cleric, he is known to have strong connections with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
He was sanctioned by the United States in 2019 for working “closely” with the commander of the Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force and the Basij Resistance Force “to advance his father’s destabilizing regional ambitions and repressive domestic goals.”
While Iran International reported on Tuesday that Mojtaba was elected Supreme Leader by Iran’s Assembly of Experts under pressure from the Revolutionary Guard, Ynetnews said Israeli officials were waiting for the appointment to be announced by that body.
Mojtaba married relatively late in 2004 (Image: NurPhoto via Getty Images)
The Middle East Institute said it faced many challenges “although there is no doubt that Mojtaba wants to become a religious leader” in 2022, The Times reported.
The institute stated: “The concept of a hereditary religious leader is also contrary to the tradition of Shiite Islam, where blood ties belong only to the 12 divinely appointed Shiite imams.
“If Khamenei pursues this option today, after his death it will likely lead to turmoil among Shiite hawzas (seminaries) and sections of the Islamic Republic’s political elite.”
