Mojtaba Khamenei Net Worth
Iran’s third supreme leader spent years as the quiet gatekeeper of a family network that investigators put in the billions.
By Net Worth Watch Editorial · Reviewed by Net Worth Watch Research
Last updated Nov 3, 2026 · 2 min read

Estimated net worth
$3 Billion
USD · As of November 3, 2026
- Source of wealth
- London property, Hotels and villas, Offshore accounts
- Nationality
- Iran
- Estimate by
- CelebrityNetWorth
What is Mojtaba Khamenei’s net worth?
CelebrityNetWorth estimates his fortune at $3 billion in November 2026. The figure is an unverified outside estimate: Iran publishes no asset declaration for the supreme leader, no audit exists, and the properties attributed to him are not registered in his name.
He was sanctioned by the US Treasury in 2019, which froze any assets identified as his. Iran has never published any statement of his income or holdings, so there is no official figure to set against the estimate.
Sources of wealth
A year-long investigation and Western intelligence assessments described a network that routed funds largely from Iranian oil sales into property, companies and accounts abroad. Reporting named mansions on The Bishops Avenue in London, a villa in Dubai, hotels in Frankfurt and Mallorca, and accounts in Switzerland, the UAE and Liechtenstein.
Ownership is hidden behind shell companies, intermediaries and associates. Iranian businessman Ali Ansari, accused by British authorities of acting as a financial conduit for networks tied to the ruling elite, appears repeatedly in those reports.
How the fortune was built
Born in Mashhad on 8 September 1969, the second son of Ali Khamenei, he studied theology in Qom and joined the Revolutionary Guard in the late 1980s. He later served as his father’s representative, or vakil, from 2008 until 2026, controlling access to the supreme leader’s office.
He was named third supreme leader by the Assembly of Experts in March 2026, after his father died in US and Israeli strikes that February. It was the first father to son transfer of authority in the republic’s history, and it consolidated the financial structures long attached to the office.
How we estimate it
We publish the CelebrityNetWorth figure of $3 billion dated 3 November 2026. The source itself concedes that precise valuations are difficult to verify because ownership runs through layered companies, and we repeat that caveat rather than smoothing it over.
Nothing here has been established in a court or confirmed by an auditor. The components are the allegations of investigators and journalists, which he and the Iranian government reject.


