Mojtaba Khamenei deadlier than his father

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Jaber Rajabi, former Iranian official and ex-study partner of supreme leader, shares a warning that Mojtaba Khamenei is a greater threat than his father.​

Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of late Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, attends a meeting in Tehran, Iran, March 2, 2016. (photo credit: Rouhollah Vahdati/ISNA/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS )


Mojtaba Khamenei is infinitely more dangerous than his predecessor and father, Ali Khamenei, as he is more willing to lie and places less value on human life, a former study partner of the new supreme leader told The Jerusalem Post.

Jaber Rajabi, who worked as a foreign-policy adviser to then-Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and as a go-between for the regime-backed militias in Iraq, spoke with the Post through a written translator from his home, where he has been living under local protection in exile since 2021.

From a family loyal to the regime, Rajabi’s father fought in the Iraq-Iran War, and his mother worked for a short time in the office of the now-assassinated supreme leader. It was this history that led the regime to recruit him after discovering that he fought in Muqtada al-Sadr’s terrorist groups against US forces in Iraq.