Mojtaba, the newly elected Supreme Leader of Iran and son of the former Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reportedly underwent months of treatment in the UK for impotency, according to a secret US intelligence document.
The 56-year-old has been elected as the next supreme leader of Iran by the country’s assembly of 88 clerics under pressure from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iranian media reported.
A WikiLeaks-released document sent by the state department to the US embassy in London in 2008 showed that the Mojtaba was under pressure from a family member to produce heirs, The Daily Mail reported.
He visited the UK four times, with the final stay lasting about two months.
He eventually had a son named Ali, named after his father, the Supreme Leader. 'After a stay of two months, his wife became pregnant. Back in Iran, a healthy boy was born, named Ali for his paternal grandfather.'
Us intelligence showed that Mojtaba married relatively late in life in 2004.
This was due to an “impotency problem treated and eventually resolved during three extended visits to the UK.'
The documents show that he visited the Wellington and Cromwell Hospitals in London
He also needed a fourth visit as he was expected to produce children quickly.
The files also showed that Mojtaba worked under his father’s shadow and that he travelled with him in Iran and had a' fair degree of control over access to his father.'
He was also widely viewed within the regime as a capable and forceful leader and manager who may someday succeed to at least a share of national leadership. His father may also see him in that light.'
The report also said that some in the leaders office saw that Ali Khamenei treated and consulted Mojtaba as an eventually successor to his responsibilities rather than an advisor.
However, he was seen as weak in clerical terms.
'(He) is not expected ever to achieve by his own scholarship the status of "mujtahid," far less that of ayatollah,' the report said.
'Mojtaba reportedly is quite aware of his own limitations and does not appear to harbour an expectation of becoming sole Supreme Leader in his own right,' it went on.
Mojtaba's selection as the next supreme leader was also seen as unlikely because the regime has ling criticised hereditary rule and khamenei was against staring a dynasty. Mojtaba is Ali Khamenei's second son and has an older brother, Mostafa, who is also a cleric.
