Economy

Khamenei's son's real estate empire exposes officials' corruption

While ordinary Iranians suffer under a suffocating economic crisis, the elites of the Islamic Republic regime in Tehran live like kings.

Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, attends a demonstration in Tehran, on May 31, 2019. [Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto/AFP]
Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, attends a demonstration in Tehran, on May 31, 2019. [Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto/AFP]

By Nohad Topalian |

Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader, directs a vast real estate network outside the Islamic regime in Tehran via intermediaries, according to Bloomberg.

Valued at over $138 million, the portfolio includes a $46.5 million London property, luxury hotels in Frankfurt and Mallorca Spain and a luxurious Dubai villa.

This enormous wealth contrasts sharply with the economic and financial collapse currently crippling the Iranian people.

Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, has been actively involved in deals dating back to 2011 to present.

The January 28 Bloomberg report cited Western intelligence assessments, insider accounts and confidential documents as the basis for this finding.

His assets include a ski hotel in Austria and a golf resort in Mallorca, among other luxury properties in Europe.

Iranian banker Ali Ansari, sanctioned by Britain last October, appeared as an owner or director in many of Mojtaba Khamenei's transactions.

Ansari was sanctioned due to his role in financing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Bloomberg report revealed the hypocrisy of the Islamic Republic regime's elites, who claim to represent the Iranian people while living lavish lives of luxury abroad.

Amidst an economic and financial collapse due to inflation and mismanagement, Iranian oil sales are being diverted to finance Mojtaba Khamenei's real estate empire abroad.

Economic collapse and inflation have sparked protests by Iranians across the Islamic Republic since late December 2025.

Islamic Republic's corruption, hypocrisy

"The Iranian people know that leaders of the Islamic regime are plundering the country's resources in the name of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his son Mojtaba, whose luxury and immense wealth deprive citizens of their basic rights," Hussein Ataya, coordinator for "Southerners for Freedom" and a Shiite opposition figure in Lebanon, told Pishtaz.

The Islamic Republic regime's lie of demanding austerity while secretly building a global network of luxury assets.

Ataya said, this exposes "the hypocrisy and corruption of the Islamic regime while engaging in all kinds of humiliation and intimidation against its people."

"People deserve leaders who would put the country's natural resources and oil wealth at the service of Iran's prosperity, and its reconciliation with the international community."

Oil revenues

Mojtaba Khamenei's foreign real estate empire, funded by Iranian oil revenues, has allowed the Islamic regime to prosper abroad.

"Contrary to required oversight, public funds are being unilaterally and illegitimately invested by the Supreme Leader and his son, Mojtaba," said Lebanese political analyst Ali al-Amin.

"This has caused the Iranian people to lose faith in the integrity of the Islamic regime leadership, who have delivered nothing but failed economic, financial and strategic policies."

The elite's opulent lifestyle stands in stark contrast to the people's minimal wages, exposing the Islamic regime's failed economic policies and self-serving priorities.

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