Khamenei's son, the man proposed to be the new leader of Iran, was treated when he needed it not in friendly countries Russia and China, but in a hospital in another big capital

Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, was pressured by his family to have heirs and was treated for months at London's Wellington and Cromwell hospitals, according to a CIA document that reached the US Embassy in London.

Iran's Assembly of Experts has elected Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the dead Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the next leader of the Islamic Republic, exiled publication Iran International announced on Tuesday.

Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of the ayatollah, is considered aligned with the radical conservative camp in Iran, like his father, according to the Israeli publication Ynet.

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Mojtaba was not a favorite of the regime when his father was alive. His religious career was mediocre. A middle-ranking cleric, he teaches Shia theology at a seminary in Qom, Iran's clerical epicenter. Mojtaba never held an official position in the government.

In the absence of clerical ascendancy, he developed his power through good relations with the strongmen of the Revolutionary Guard. And through relations with his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Mojtaba Khamenei was repeatedly treated in 2008 for impotence in British hospitals, according to a secret document of the American secret services, cited by the British newspaper Daily Mail.

“According to a classified briefing sent by the State Department to the US Embassy in London in 2008 and later published by WikiLeaks, Mojtaba was under pressure from his family to have children,” writes the Daily Mail.

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“It took four visits, including a final two-month stay, and eventually she had a son who was named 'Ali' after the child's grandfather, then supreme leader. According to the US Secret Service, Mojtaba married relatively late in 2004. This was due “apparently to an impotence problem treated and eventually resolved during three extended visits to the UK”.

“After a two-month stay, his wife became pregnant. Back in Iran, a healthy boy was born, named Ali after his paternal grandfather.”

20% of Iran's population is deeply religious

Information in the document shows that Mojtaba was “close and well informed” by senior leaders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

In contrast, the supreme leader's son was not looked upon favorably by the clerical caste, which has enormous influence in Iran.

“He is not expected to ever achieve, through his own erudition, the status of 'mujtahid', let alone that of ayatollah,” the report said.Opponents in Iran estimate that 20 percent of the population is consistently devoted to religious life.