The Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported in an investigative article on Wednesday, February 18, that Mojtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old son of Iranian regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei, had engaged in negotiations in 2024 through a Vienna-based company that operated the Spar supermarket chain in Iran.
According to a draft contract obtained by the newspaper, the proposed price of the deal was 706 million euros—an enormous sum indicating efforts to transfer vast amounts of capital out of Iran.
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Mojtaba Khamenei is regarded as the economic and political mastermind of the Khamenei family and is considered his father’s favorite son. He is widely viewed as a potential successor to Ali Khamenei—unless the Iranian regime collapses as a result of the ongoing protests.
The newspaper emphasized that this sensitive transaction was handled at the highest levels of Iran’s ruling establishment and was part of a risk-averse strategy to move assets abroad amid internal crisis.
While the regime has plunged the Iranian people into poverty and repression, the supreme leader’s children are transferring massive assets to Europe to secure a safe haven in the event of the regime’s downfall.
