Pious talk in Tehran, multi-million dollar properties in London and Dubai: investigation exposes secret real estate empire of Khamenei’s son

Officially, the Iranian elite leads an austere and pious existence. But behind the scenes, the intended successor to supreme leader Ali Khamenei appears to have a very different lifestyle. An extensive investigation by ‘Bloomberg’ shows that his son Mojtaba Khamenei (56) has built a global real estate empire worth more than 115 million euros through front men, financed with petrodollars.

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