Something queer’s afoot in the Islamic Republic. As Mojtaba Khamenei was announced as Iran’s new Supreme Leader last week, reports emerged that his own father, the late ayatollah Ali Khamenei, didn’t want him to take power and even went as far as making this explicit in his will, according to the New York Post.
Now, the Post reveals that his father’s qualms were over Mojtaba’s alleged sexual attraction to men.
When President Trump was briefed that Mojtaba may be gay, he “couldn’t contain his surprise and laughed aloud” while others in the room joined in his reaction, sources close to the intelligence community and the White House told the Post.
It’s an odd turn of events when the repressive theocracy is the one with the gay leader, and the western democracy is the one using intelligence agents to out someone. But here we are. Maybe all this angst over the “Strait” of Hormuz should have given us a clue…
At least Mojtaba won’t be too devastated about his wife getting rocketed. It was his childhood tutor whom he reportedly had a long-term sexual relationship with. One wonders if he didn’t have a certain complex about male authority figures. Daddy issues, much?
While it’s illegal to be gay in Iran, the government does allow sex changes to spare gay men from criminal punishment (such as, er, the death penalty). Cockburn hears rumors that Mojtaba is currently undergoing secret treatment in a Russian hospital. Could this regime-change war bring Iran not only its first gayatollah, but a female supreme leader?
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