U.S. intelligence documents released by WikiLeaks claim that Mojtaba Khamenei, reported as Iran’s new Supreme Leader, received treatment for impotence at private hospitals in the United Kingdom.
Reports indicate that Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, is among the leading contenders to succeed his late father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an Israeli strike in Tehran on Saturday. According to a classified U.S. State Department briefing sent to the U.S. Embassy in London in 2008 and later released by WikiLeaks, Mojtaba faced immense pressure to produce heirs after struggling to conceive a child with his wife.
The briefing detailed that Mojtaba underwent treatment four times at London’s Wellington and Cromwell Hospitals for “impotency.” It noted, “He married relatively late in life, in 2004, reportedly due to an impotency problem treated and eventually resolved during three extended visits to the UK,” highlighting the personal pressures the cleric faced before assuming any official post.