NEW: Trump ‘Laughed Out Loud’ After Hearing Latest Intel On Mojtaba Khamenei

President Trump was reportedly caught off guard last week after U.S. intelligence officials briefed him on a startling claim about Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei.

U.S. intelligence indicates Khamenei may be gay and that his father, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, worried about his suitability to lead the Islamic Republic for that reason, according to sources familiar with the briefing.

Trump reacted with visible surprise and laughed when he heard the intelligence, sources said. Others in the room also found it “hilarious,” and one senior intelligence official “has not stopped laughing about it for days,” according to a person familiar with the meeting.

The allegation was described to The Post by two intelligence community officials and a third person close to the White House.

All three sources said U.S. spy agencies consider the claim credible rather than disinformation aimed at undermining Khamenei, 56, who was selected to replace his father as supreme leader on March 8.

Two of the sources said intelligence indicates Mojtaba, long known inside Iran as “the power behind the robes” while serving as gatekeeper to his aging father, had a long-term sexual relationship with his childhood tutor.

The third source said the intelligence instead suggested the relationship involved a person who previously worked for the Khamenei family.

Mojtaba, who is believed to have been wounded in the Feb. 28 airstrike that killed his father and other relatives, has also made “aggressive” sexual overtures to male caregivers while recovering, possibly while under the influence of heavy medication, one source said.

Mojtaba Khamenei and his children on Quds Day

U.S. spy agencies do not possess photographic evidence of Mojtaba Khamenei’s alleged attraction to men. However, the sources insisted the intelligence is considered reliable, with one describing it as “derived from one of the most protected sources that the government has.”

“The fact that this was elevated to the highest of high levels shows you there’s some confidence in this,” a second source said.

Rumors about Mojtaba’s sexuality have circulated quietly inside Iran since at least the May 2024 helicopter crash that killed then-President Ebrahim Raisi, widely seen as Ali Khamenei’s preferred successor, sources said.

Within the U.S. government, the information has remained tightly held. “It’s been a pretty closely held piece of information,” one insider said.

Trump has previously dismissed Mojtaba Khamenei as a “lightweight” and an “unacceptable” choice to run Iran. Analysts widely believe the new supreme leader will not back down from Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs that helped trigger Operation Epic Fury.

Some previously reported details about Mojtaba Khamenei’s personal life have also resurfaced.

A classified 2008 U.S. diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks reported that Mojtaba was treated in the United Kingdom for impotence, though the report did not identify the cause.

According to the State Department cable, Mojtaba married “relatively late in life” around age 30 “reportedly due to an impotency problem treated and eventually resolved during three extended visits to the UK, at Wellington and Cromwell Hospitals, London.”

“Mojtaba was expected by his family to produce children quickly, but needed a fourth visit to the UK for medical treatment; after a stay of two months, his wife became pregnant,” the leaked file said.

Mojtaba’s wife, Zahra, and teenage son, Mohammad Bagher, were reportedly killed in the airstrike that also killed his father. The new supreme leader is survived by another son and a daughter.

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