Posted on 03/16/2026 8:42:39 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
U.S. intelligence has circulated to President Trump and to a small circle around him that Iran's late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had misgivings about his son replacing him, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
The analysis showed the elder Khamenei was wary of his son, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, ever taking power because he was perceived as not very bright, and was viewed as unqualified to be leader, according to sources.
The information gathered also indicated that the father was aware that his son had issues in his personal life, according to sources within the administration, the intelligence community and people close to the president.
Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, was selected to become Iran's supreme leader last weekend by the country's council of religious clerics after serving as a close aide to his father for years.
About eight days earlier, Ali Khamenei was killed in an Israeli missile strike in the opening salvo of the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran.
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More garbage news...
Sounds like the perfect Democrat candidate.🙄
Yeah, I was just thinking of that old baseball thing where the visiting pitcher is getting clobbered. Manager heads for the mound and the home crowd chants, “Leave him in! Leave him in!”
I just read an unconfirmed report that his son was not very bright, and had issues with homosexual behavior. (not that it is wholly uncommon in that culture, considering what they do to women who engage in sexual affairs outside of marriage)
But if true, that means his son is wholly pliable, controllable, and has no moral compass, which seems perfect for a Islamic ruler in Iran.
Is it because he’s gay?
He was wary about his son taking power because that would mean he would be dead.
Not that there is anything wrong with that
😆
And we know this... because the Epstein infused CIA “found it out”?
Ok...sure. Maybe...
If Mojtaba is gay, that’s a muslim death sentence.
I’m hearing that father and son are/were both gay. Apparently it’s common knowledge in Iran and Afghanistan, where the father is from.
Word is that father Khomeini was even disciplined, as a young mullah, by his mosque in Afghanistan. He was getting too frisky in the showers with other clerics.
They had showers?
I did say it was unverified… But if true, it would not be surprising to me at all. They are after all one of the most sexually repressed cultures in the world, so this wouldn’t be out of line with that.
Mojtaba Khamenei’s newly revealed “personal problems” at least relieves one concern—Iran’s camels.
Yes.
Golden showers.
Khamenei’s son: Iran Experts: Key Role In Protest Crackdown: Potential Successor As Supreme Leader
The Chicago Tribune ^ | June 25, 2009 | Jeffrey Fleishman
Posted on 6/28/2009, 8:13:51 AM by Son House
There are few anecdotes about him, and pictures, at least ones that have appeared publicly, are scarce.
The younger Khamenei operates behind an elaborate security structure, an overlapping world that stretches from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to the motorcycle-riding Basiji.
That accumulation of control was used to outflank reformists such as Hashemi Rafsanjani and Hossein Ali Montazeri, revered figures of the Islamic Revolution who years ago had questioned the senior Khamenei’s qualifications as supreme leader.
The violence that has erupted over the last week — state media have reported that 10 to 19 people have died — were in part the result of a crackdown by forces close to Mojtaba Khamenei, who backs Ahmadinejad and shares his Islamic fervor.
“This coup taking place is a political liquidation against the old guard by reckless people like Motjaba and Ahmadinejad,” said Mehdi Khalaji, an expert on Iran with The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “But I don’t think they will win.”
Mojtaba Khamenei is a secretive man who doesn’t want to “be on people’s tongues,” said Mohsen Sazegara, an Iranian journalist and former government official. “Nobody knows much about him.”
Khalaji said the supreme leader immersed himself in literature, novels and music, was friends with intellectuals and spent time in jail with Marxists when he was younger, but the son “grew up in a very different atmosphere, a postrevolutionary generation.”
Analysts say Mojtaba Khamenei lacks the religious and political stature to overcome the opposition he would face in the Assembly of Experts, the body charged with selecting the supreme leader. His father, 69, is believed to have influence over about half of the assembly’s 86 seats, but the board is headed by Rafsanjani and includes other reformists who would likely block an attempt for the younger Khamenei to succeed his father.
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