President Trump Received High Level Intel That Iran’s New Supreme Leader Is Gay

Didn’t see this coming.

The new Iranian Supreme Leader doesn’t practice what he preaches.

According to multiple reports, President Trump was briefed that Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is gay.

When President Trump received the intel, he reportedly couldn’t help but laugh.

The New York Post broke the details on the intel Trump was given and what his initial reaction was:

President Trump was stunned to learn last week that US intelligence indicates new Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei may be gay — and that his father, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, feared his suitability to rule the Islamic Republic for that reason, The Post can reveal.

Trump couldn’t contain his surprise and laughed aloud when he was briefed on the intel, according to sources.

Others in the room also found it “hilarious” and joined the president’s reaction, while one senior intelligence official “has not stopped laughing about it for days,” said one person familiar with the briefing.

The shocking claim was described to The Post by two intelligence community officials and a third person close to the White House.

All three sources say the implausible-sounding allegation is viewed as credible by US spy agencies, rather than false information intended to undermine Khamenei, 56, who was selected to replace his dead father as supreme leader on March 8.

Two of the sources said the intelligence indicated that Mojtaba, who earned the nickname “the power behind the robes” while serving as his aging dad’s gatekeeper, has had a long-term sexual relationship with his childhood tutor.

The third source said the intelligence indicated the affair was with a person who formerly worked for the Khamenei family.

Mojtaba, who is believed to have been wounded in the same Feb. 28 airstrike that killed his father and other members of his family, has made “aggressive” sexual overtures to men caring for him, possibly while under the influence of heavy medication, one of The Post’s sources said.

US spy agencies do not have photographic evidence of Mojtaba Khamenei’s alleged sexual attraction to men, but the sources insisted the tip is solid, with one saying it was “derived from one of the most protected sources that the government has.”

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Reuters reported last week that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth shared that the new leader of Iran is severely injured:

Iran’s new Supreme ​Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is wounded and likely disfigured, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday, questioning Khamenei’s ability to govern after nearly ‌two weeks of U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran.

No images have been released of Khamenei since an Israeli strike at the start of the war that killed much of his family, including his father and wife.

His first comments came in a statement read by a television presenter on Thursday. In the statement, he vowed to keep the Strait of Hormuz shut and called on neighboring ​countries to close U.S. bases on their territory or risk Iran targeting them.

“We know the new so-called not-so-supreme leader is wounded and likely disfigured. ​He put out a statement yesterday. A weak one, actually, but there was no voice and there was no video. It ⁠was a written statement,” Hegseth told a briefing.

“Iran has plenty of cameras and plenty of voice recorders. Why a written statement? I think you know why. His ​father – dead. He’s scared, he’s injured, he’s on the run and he lacks legitimacy.”

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Iran has said the new supreme leader was wounded. An Iranian official told Reuters on ​Wednesday that his injuries were light. On Friday, Iran’s ambassador to Japan, Peyman Saadat, said Mojtaba Khamenei had not been “impaired.”