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He’s pretty soft on the idea.
President Trump is having a hard time picturing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s reportedly impotent son Mojtaba taking over the Iranian regime — insisting the 56-year-old who was hospitalized four times for problems in the sack is a “lightweight.”
“They are wasting their time. Khamenei’s son is a lightweight,” Trump told Axios Thursday, as reports swirled that Mojtaba was likely to be tapped Tehran’s next supreme leader.
Mojtaba Khamenei is reportedly the favorite to succeed his father and rule Iran as the supreme leader. ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH/EPA/Shutterstock“Khamenei’s son is unacceptable to me. We want someone that will bring harmony and peace to Iran.”
Word of Mojtaba’s likely ascent to his slain father’s throne, emerging from opposition outlets in Iran but not yet confirmed through state media or official channels, has thrust some not-so-flattering details about his love life into the open — namely that he was unable to perform with his wife following their marriage, unearthed US diplomatic cables showed.
The regime hardliner’s intimacy problems were reportedly so severe that he had to be hospitalized for impotency treatment on four separate occasions at a series of London clinics — with his last stint stretching for two months before he was finally able to do what was “expected” with his wife, cables show.
“Mojtaba was expected by his family to produce children quickly, but needed a fourth visit to the UK for medical treatment; after a stay of two months, his wife became pregnant,” the WikiLeaks-published cable read.
He even engaged in two “temporary marriages” — permitted under Iran’s Islamic law that allows people to engage in sex out of wedlock and still maintain proper religious standing — where he had ample time to practice his stroke before getting officially shacked up.
President Trump doesn’t support Mojtaba Khamenei taking power, calling the slain leader’s son a “lightweight.” APMojtaba eventually did manage to have a child with his wife — but his family was killed in Saturday’s US-Israeli strike on Tehran that also eliminated his father and more than 40 of Iran’s top officials.
The Islamic Republic has been scrambling to fill the power void ever since, with Mojtaba reportedly leading the pack as regime hardliners push to install him as the next supreme leader — in what could be an attempt to show the West that the oppressive government is determined to continue with business as usual.
But Trump has insisted nobody will take over Iran unless he’s consulted first.
“I have to be involved in the appointment, like with Delcy [Rodriguez] in Venezuela,” he told Axios, referring to Venezuela’s new president after dictator Nicolas Maduro was captured by the US troops in January.
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