The President of the United States, Donald Trump, publicly confirmed that he received intelligence information about the private life of Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei. The statement came during an interview with Fox News, where he confirmed versions that had already been broadcast days ago by
American media.According to the president, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) informed him that the Iranian ayatollah would be homosexual. When asked directly about this information, he answered that “yes, they did”, although he added that he did not know if that version came only from the agency or if it also circulated in other areas
.The statement is in line with a report published on March 16 by the New York Post, which cited sources linked to US intelligence. According to that report, Washington's analysis contemplates that the personal life of a dictator could have political implications in the internal context of the Iranian regime
.According to these accounts, the late supreme leader Ali Khamenei had reservations about his son's succession, in part because of how certain aspects of his private life could be perceived within the clerical and political structure of Iran.
