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Mojtaba Khamenei is the 56-year-old son of Ayatollah Khamenei, the late unlamented leader of Iran who recently proved, as tyrants often do, that “nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.” Daddy’s little boy even in his mid-50s, Mojtaba is has just been named to succeed his father.
Mojtaba has one thing in common with his late father: he loves money, and all the things that money can buy. Reports from Western intelligence services estimate Ayatollah Khamenei’s net worth was $95 billion. Some estimates go even higher. How much of this money will end up in Mojtaba’s clammy grasp is unknown, but even before his father’s death Mojtaba was said to have a net worth of $3 billion. He has gold and diamonds worth $300 million, and has reportedly distributed $2 billion across foreign bank accounts in the UAE, Syria, Venezuela, and several African states. He also has extensive land holdings near Mashhad in eastern Iran. Finally, he has a property empire in London, Dubai, and on the continent of Europe. Just two of his apartments in Kensington are worth 50 million euros.
More on Mojtaba Khamenei’s London holdings can be found here: “Ayatollah Khamenei’s son owns £50million luxury apartments overlooking Israeli embassy in London – as experts warn of ‘serious security breach,’” by Abul Taher, Daily Mail,
The son of Iran’s recently killed dictator owns two luxury apartments overlooking the Israeli embassy in London, with experts warning of a ‘serious security breach’, it emerged on Saturday night.
Mojtaba Khamenei – tipped to succeed his father Ali Khamenei as Iran’s new Ayatollah – owns the properties in Kensington, west London, with an estimated value of more than £50million.
The sixth and seventh floor apartments, which come with servants’ quarters on the ground floor, are a stone’s throw from Kensington Palace, the official residence of the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Khamenei, 56, is understood to have owned the two apartments since 2014, but his ownership only emerged after a year-long investigation by the news channel Bloomberg.
It has revealed Khamenei also owns 11 mansions in Hampstead, North London, through a front man and a shell company registered in the Isle of Man.
The Bloomberg investigation also revealed Khamenei has amassed a portfolio of properties around the world worth hundreds of millions of pounds.
The funds for the purchases came from Iran’s sanction-busting oil programme. according to the probe.
The revelations that Khamenei – a leader within the feared Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) – owns two flats that look down on the Israeli embassy building raises fears the apartments may have been used to spy on the diplomatic mission….
Mojtaba Khamenei, daddy’s little helper, must be wondering. He thinks to himself in an interior monologue: If the Assembly of Experts chooses me to succeed my father, do I decline, because of the risk involved — the Israelis have already said the next Supreme Leader will not be the Supreme Leader for long — or should I do the first brave thing I’ve ever done in my life, and accept the job? I suppose that if I am killed, I’ll be a martyr and end up in the Mohammedan heaven, Jannah, with the 72 virgins, which isn’t such a bad outcome. But how sad that I will have to leave behind my two flats in Kensington, my bank accounts in London and Dubai, my landholdings in Mashhad, and that portfolio of properties around the world worth hundreds of millions of dollars, in Belgravia and Mayfair in London, on Avenue Foch and Avenue Montaigne in Paris, and on Via Margutta and Via del Babuino in Rome. Questions, questions, so much to think about, and I’m only 56.
Photo credit: Mojtaba Khamenei and his children in Quds Day 1397 by Hamed Malekpour, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
