Who is Iran’s ‘new’ Supreme Leader? Slain Ayatollah’s son ‘treated for IMPOTENCY in UK’ set to become Trump’s no1 target

IRAN’S next suspected Supreme Leader was reportedly treated for impotency at hospitals in London.

Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, the son of the slain Ayatollah, has been tipped as the regime’s next dictator – and it could put him in Donald Trump‘s cross hairs.

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Mojtaba Khamenei has been tipped as the next Ayatollah

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It comes after his father Ali Khamenei’s death

It comes after the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 86, his wife, and at least 48 other senior Iranian officials on Saturday amid Operation Epic Fury.

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Mojtaba was once under pressure from his family to produce heirs, according to a classified 2008 briefing sent from the State Department to the US embassy in London.

He reportedly needed four visits hospital, including one final stay which lasted two months – and eventually had a son named after his father Ali.

US intelligence also suggests Mojtaba married late in life in 2004 – reportedly due to the “impotency problem treated and eventually resolved during three extended visits to the UK”.

The eliminated Ayatollah’s son visited Wellington and Cromwell Hospitals in London, the intelligence says.

The report reads: “Mojtaba was expected by his family to produce children quickly, but needed a fourth visit to the UK for medical treatment.

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“After a stay of two months, his wife became pregnant. Back in Iran, a healthy boy was born, named Ali for his paternal grandfather.”

Mojtaba was selected as the primary candidate to succeed his own dad following two Assembly of Experts meetings in Iran, regime officials told The New York Times.

He is understood to be a hardline conservative cleric who advocated for developing nuclear bombs- and who has strong links to Iran’s brutal Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The late tyrant’s son, who reportedly exercised large amounts of influence while his dad was still in power, has now been put in Israel’s cross hairs.

Vowing to assassinate whoever the next Ayatollah is, defence minister Israel Katz said on X: “Every leader appointed by the Iranian terror regime … will be an unequivocal target for elimination.”

Mojtaba owns luxury pads in the UK worth more than £100million, including 11 homes in Bishop’s Avenue – nicknamed Billionaire’s Row – according to Bloomberg.

He is believed to control a sprawling investment empire across Tehran, Dubai and Frankfurt – and has reportedly stashed cash away in Swiss bank accounts.

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In January he reportedly moved nearly £250million to Dubai using cryptocurrency.

He is believed to own a private jet, a helicopter to urgent trips, and a fleet of Mercedes cars.

Before his dad’s assassination, he taught at the country’s largest seminary in Qom – having been previously educated by an extreme cleric known as the “Crocodile Ayatollah”.

Mojtaba, who reportedly has “a bleak human rights record”, has helped suppress domestic protests and also served in the Iran–Iraq War.

He has previously been predicted as next Supreme Leader – with a Middle East Institute report in 2022 saying “there is no doubt that Mojtaba wants to be supreme leader”.

But it outlined the challenges he faces – including the fact that his father had opposed hereditary rule due the system echoing the Iranian monarchy.

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Mojtaba Khamenei was an advocate for nuclear bombs

The move would likely outrage many traditional senior clerics who will be reminded of the Shah’s reign when faced with a family heir mechanism.

The report said: “The concept of a hereditary supreme leader would also go against Shia Islamic convention, with blood lineage for the mantle being exclusively reserved for the 12 divinely ordained Shia imams.

“Today, if Khamenei were to push ahead with this option, after his death it would likely cause uproar across the Shia hawzas (seminaries) and among certain factions of the Islamic Republic’s political elite.”

On top of this, the late Ayatollah had named three potential successors to him before his death – none of whom were Mojtaba.

The “leading” candidate also has an older brother called Mostafa, who is also a cleric.

Mojtaba’s selection is believed to have come as the Iranian Revolutionary Guards pile pressure on the regime to fight back against the US and Israel.

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The guards pushed for Mojtaba’s appointment – arguing that he had the qualifications needed to steer Iran in a time of crisis.

The US president said on Tuesday that someone “from within” the Iranian regime may be best placed to lead the country post-war.

Trump said: “I guess the worst case would be we do this and somebody takes over who’s as bad as the previous person, we don’t want that to happen.”

It comes after US-Israeli strikes reportedly targeted the building in Tehran where Iranian officials were discussing the next supreme leader.

A bunker-busting strike flattened the Assembly of Experts complex where top clerics had gathered to crown Khamenei’s successor.

Breaking the news of the Ayatollah’s death, Trump proclaimed: “One of the most evil people in history is dead.”

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IRAN’S merciless regime is on the brink of collapse – with terror chiefs and rival opposition figures vying for control.

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s death has thrown the Islamic Republic’s future into turmoil, exposing the first legitimate opening to pivot away from repressive rule in decades.

After wiping out the Ayatollah and dozens of top commanders in Saturday’s mammoth Epic Fury blitz, Donald Trump issued a rallying cry to Iranians to seize the opportunity to topple the regime for good.

“This is the single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their country,” the US president said.

“Hopefully, the IRGC and police will peacefully merge with the Iranian patriots, and work together as a unit to bring back the country to the greatness it deserves.”

Following Khamenei’s death, a shady web of stooges he created in a bid to make his regime “coup-proof” – which The Sun this week revealed – will be stepping up to take the reins.

Ayatollah Alireza Arafi has been anointed as an interim leader to pull the strings of terror that Khamenei no longer can.

The mullah, president Masoud Pezeshkian and chief justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i will work to collectively exercise the Supreme Leader’s power until a permanent successor is selected.

Khamenei’s second-eldest son Mojtaba, who effectively served as a “mini-Supreme leader” within his father’s office, was tipped to be his most likely heir.

Despite being a behind-the-scenes figure, Mojtaba, 56, has long been an influential actor in Iran’s ruling mechanism – and has close ties with the IRGC.

Kasra Aarbi, director of IRGC research at United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), told The Sun Mojtaba will be in the running – providing he’s hasn’t been wiped out.

“We haven’t had the reports yet as to whether he is alive,” Kasra said.

“But there is an invisible power structure there, an invisible state, that is really calling the shots. His sons are part of that.

“It has been designed alongside the IRGC to fill any vacuum and make sure continuity prevails rather than anything that could have a devastating blow to the regime.

“Keep an eye on Ayatollah Alireza Arafi. Keep an eye on his sons.”

The US president had repeatedly warned the Ayatollah to cut a deal with Washington over his nuclear programme – or face his wrath.

Trump’s patience finally wore out and he pulled the trigger on an almighty blitz of the rogue nation – vowing to obliterate Khamenei’s regime.

The aging Ayatollah, 86, was holding talks with his henchmen in his office in Tehran when the US and Israel unleashed a massive wave of strikes early on Saturday.

Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader since 1989, was killed – alongside his daughter, grandchild, daughter-in-law and son-in-law.

The death sparked a scramble in the regime to replace the supreme leader.

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