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Editor's note: The pirate City of London obviously takes care of their own. A year-long investigation by Bloomberg found that Mojtaba Khamenei quietly built an overseas real-estate network worth more than $100 million, including numerous luxury properties in London. The portfolio reportedly includes mansions on the elite street The Bishops Avenue as well as other high-end assets across Europe and the Middle East. According to Bloomberg, the properties are not held directly in Khamenei's name but through shell companies and associates such as Iranian businessman Ali Ansari. The shell companies are registered in the Aisle of Mann and St. Kitts, both nodes of the City of London's offshore banking network. Funds for the purchases were allegedly routed through banks in the UK, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the UAE and are believed to originate largely from Iranian oil revenues, despite sanctions imposed on Khamenei in 2019. Where did this British asset get his wealth from? Oil. 
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How the Son of Iran's Supreme Leader Built a Global Property Empire

Mojtaba Khamenei has amassed sprawling international investments, while economic hardship at home has sparked Iran's deadliest protests in decades.

By Ben Bartenstein | January 29, 2026

On a tree-lined street in north London, known as "Billionaire's Row," a clutch of mostly empty mansions sit behind tall hedges and blacked-out gates. As school children wander by, private guards in dark SUVs patrol outside.

Behind the facades of these luxury homes on The Bishops Avenue lies a network stretching from Tehran to Dubai and Frankfurt. The ultimate ownership traces back, through layers of shell companies, to one of the most powerful men in the Middle East: Mojtaba Khamenei, the second-eldest son of Iran's Supreme Leader.

The 56-year-old cleric, touted as a potential successor to his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, oversees a sprawling investment empire, according to people familiar with the matter and the assessment of a leading Western intelligence agency. The people said that while the younger Khamenei refrains from putting assets in his own name, he has been directly involved in the deals, some of which stretch back at least as far as 2011.

His financial power has embraced everything from Persian Gulf shipping to Swiss bank accounts and British luxury property worth in excess of £100 million ($138 million), say the people, who requested anonymity for fear of retribution or because they're not authorized to speak publicly. Together, the web of firms has helped Khamenei to channel funds — by some estimates in the billions of dollars — into Western markets, despite US sanctions imposed on him in 2019.

That includes prime real estate — one house cost £33.7 million when it was bought in 2014 — in several of London’s most exclusive neighborhoods, a villa in an area dubbed the "Beverly Hills of Dubai" and upscale European hotels from Frankfurt to Mallorca. Funds for the transactions have been routed through accounts at banks in the UK, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the United Arab Emirates, according to documents seen by Bloomberg and people familiar with the matter. The funds originate primarily from Iranian oil sales, the people said.

None of the documents seen by Bloomberg list assets directly in Khamenei's name. Instead, many of the purchases appear in the name of an Iranian businessman, Ali Ansari, sanctioned by the UK in October.

Iran's state media depicts the Supreme Leader and his family — part of a revolutionary movement that toppled a monarch in 1979 in the name of the poor and Islam — as living an austere and pious life. There's little indication the family has used the foreign assets to fund lavish lifestyles. Still, the hidden fortune of the younger Khamenei conflicts with that image of piety promoted by the regime, especially in the wake of rising poverty and widespread unrest and protests against the Islamic Republic that have helped rally support for the ousted monarchy and seen thousands killed in Iran since the start of the year.

Anger directed at high levels of economic corruption and mismanagement in the regime often target the aghazadeh, a pejorative used to describe children of the elite accused of amassing great wealth thanks to the political connections of their relatives.

A year-long Bloomberg News investigation reveals how the family's financial reach has expanded beyond the borders of the Islamic Republic. This story is based on interviews with people who have direct knowledge of Mojtaba Khamenei's financial dealings as well as a review of real estate records and confidential business documents — ranging from hotel management agreements to corporate ownership details and bank transfers. Ansari, in particular, has been vital to the deals, according to the Western intelligence assessment.

Widely regarded as a powerful behind-the-scenes figure in Iran's political system, with close ties to the country's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Mojtaba Khamenei has largely avoided the public spotlight, even as his influence has grown and debate has intensified over who will replace his 86-year-old father as Iran's next absolute leader.

Questions around succession come at a time when Tehran appears strategically weaker than at almost any time since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei assumed the top post in 1989, the consequence of its sanctions-hit economy, last year's Israeli and US military strikes and the erosion of its regional proxies in the wake of the Gaza conflict.

The story of the Khamenei overseas investment portfolio illustrates how Iran's elite managed to move capital abroad despite the country being subject to one of history's toughest sanctions regimes for the last two decades over its nuclear program and support for armed groups that oppose Israel and Western policy in the Middle East. Those economic pressures have tightened since Donald Trump returned to office in 2025. But weaknesses in the global financial system, from lax beneficial ownership registries to limited sanctions enforcement, can allow clandestine networks to thrive, according to illicit finance experts. The US President added to the pressure on Iran on Wednesday threatening military strikes over its nuclear program.

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