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The equivalent of butter biscuits to a coon
The New York Times confirmed it. In the Oval Office last week, a frustrated Donald Trump pressed General Dan Caine Chairman of the Joint Chiefs — demanding to know why the United States cannot immediately reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The answer was simple. They can’t.
The Wall Street Journal had already reported Trump ignored Caine’s warnings before the war about exactly this. Karoline Leavitt called it “PREPOSTEROUS.” Senator Chris Murphy walked out of a classified briefing and said simply: “They had NO PLAN.”
So here is the sequence. Netanyahu orders his apprentice to launch the war. MBS makes the phone calls. Trump launches it on their behalf with America’s military, America’s money and America’s soldiers. Caine warns him about the strait. He ignores it. The strait closes. He begs Russia and China (China gets 6.6% of its energy through Hormuz but is still getting their ships through) and is now threatening to delay his Beijing summit over it.
He begs France, Japan, South Korea, the UK. Nobody comes. He goes on Israeli television to say it’s not America’s problem. While he sits in the Oval Office shouting at his own general asking why he can’t fix the thing he was warned not to break.
This is the Epstein coalition’s war of choice. And it’s going brilliantly.
The Wall Street Journal had already reported Trump ignored Caine’s warnings before the war about exactly this. Karoline Leavitt called it “PREPOSTEROUS.” Senator Chris Murphy walked out of a classified briefing and said simply: “They had NO PLAN.”
So here is the sequence. Netanyahu orders his apprentice to launch the war. MBS makes the phone calls. Trump launches it on their behalf with America’s military, America’s money and America’s soldiers. Caine warns him about the strait. He ignores it. The strait closes. He begs Russia and China (China gets 6.6% of its energy through Hormuz but is still getting their ships through) and is now threatening to delay his Beijing summit over it.
He begs France, Japan, South Korea, the UK. Nobody comes. He goes on Israeli television to say it’s not America’s problem. While he sits in the Oval Office shouting at his own general asking why he can’t fix the thing he was warned not to break.
This is the Epstein coalition’s war of choice. And it’s going brilliantly.
The go butter biscuits catching strays again.
Can we come up with a different food for coons? Because I love butter biscuits and I ain’t no coon.
And that's bad for them?
Politics
exclusive
Steven Nelson
Published March 16, 2026, 7:00 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON — President Trump was stunned to learn last week that US intelligence indicates new Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei may be gay — and that his father, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, feared his suitability to rule the Islamic Republic for that reason, The Post can reveal.
Trump couldn’t contain his surprise and laughed aloud when he was briefed on the intel, according to sources.
Others in the room also found it “hilarious” and joined the president’s reaction, while one senior intelligence official “has not stopped laughing about it for days,” said one person familiar with the briefing.
The shocking claim was described to The Post by two intelligence community officials and a third person close to the White House.
All three sources say the implausible-sounding allegation is viewed as credible by US spy agencies, rather than false information intended to undermine Khamenei, 56, who was selected to replace his dead father as supreme leader on March 8.
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Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei may be gay, according to US intelligence briefed to President Trump.via REUTERS
Two of the sources said the intelligence indicated that Mojtaba, who earned the nickname “the power behind the robes” while serving as his aging dad’s gatekeeper, has had a long-term sexual relationship with his childhood tutor.
The third source said the intelligence indicated the affair was with a person who formerly worked for the Khamenei family.
Mojtaba, who is believed to have been wounded in the same Feb. 28 airstrike that killed his father and other members of his family, has made “aggressive” sexual overtures to men caring for him, possibly while under the influence of heavy medication, one of The Post’s sources said.
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President Trump and aides reportedly laughed aloud at the intelligence report.REUTERS
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Mojtaba’s father, the former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, allegedly suspected his son was gay, sources said.AFP via Getty Images
US spy agencies do not have photographic evidence of Mojtaba Khamenei’s alleged sexual attraction to men, but the sources insisted the tip is solid, with one saying it was “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,” added a second source.
Mojtaba’s purported sexual orientation had been whispered about inside Iran since at least the May 2024 helicopter crash that killed then-president Ebrahim Raisi, Ali Khamenei’s presumed favorite to be the next supreme leader, sources said.
Within the US government, “it’s been a pretty closely held piece of information,” one insider said.
Trump previously dismissed Mojtaba Khamenei as a “lightweight” and an “unacceptable” choice to run Iran. The new supreme leader is widely considered to be someone who would not bend to US demands to abandon the nuclear and ballistic missile programs that prompted Operation Epic Fury.
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Mojtaba Khamenei allegedly has carried on a years-long relationship with a former tutor.via REUTERS
Some elements of Mojtaba Khamenei’s sex life have been reported before and may lend credence to the allegation.
A classified US diplomatic cable from 2008, published by WikiLeaks, described Mojtaba being treated in the UK for impotence, though that report did not identify what may have caused the condition.
The State Department file says that 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, reportedly died in the airstrike that killed his father. The new supreme leader has another son and a daughter.
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The theocracy’s top man has made “aggressive” sexual advances while receiving medical care, one source said.KHAMENEI.IR/AFP via Getty Images
The allegation of homosexuality was alluded to in a CBS News report on Sunday that said the elder Khamanei, who had ruled Iran since 1989, preferred a different successor in part because of unspecified “issues” in Mojtaba’s “personal life.”
“His father and others suspected he was gay and that was something that people were spreading to try to stop his ascension,” one of The Post’s sources explained.
Homosexual conduct is illegal in Iran, though the government does allow surgical sex change operations, which some gay men reportedly are pressured into undergoing to avoid criminal penalties.
Sodomy is a capital offense in the nation of 93 million people, with some gay Iranians infamously hanged from construction cranes as a warning to others.
“In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals,” former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is believed to be an ally of the younger Khamenei, claimed in 2007.
One of The Post’s sources said that although it’s generally frowned upon to out people against their will, there’s a clear case of hypocrisy to justify doing so against Mojtaba.
“If there was ever a time where it was OK to out somebody, it would be when it’s a leader of a repressive Islamic theocracy that hangs gay people by cranes,” this person said.
Mojtaba Khamenei’s current whereabouts and the status of his recovery from the Feb. 28 airstrikes remain murky.
The White House did not provide comment for this article.
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Trump briefed that Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei is probably gay — and president has priceless reaction
BySteven Nelson
Published March 16, 2026, 7:00 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON — President Trump was stunned to learn last week that US intelligence indicates new Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei may be gay — and that his father, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, feared his suitability to rule the Islamic Republic for that reason, The Post can reveal.
Trump couldn’t contain his surprise and laughed aloud when he was briefed on the intel, according to sources.
Others in the room also found it “hilarious” and joined the president’s reaction, while one senior intelligence official “has not stopped laughing about it for days,” said one person familiar with the briefing.
The shocking claim was described to The Post by two intelligence community officials and a third person close to the White House.
All three sources say the implausible-sounding allegation is viewed as credible by US spy agencies, rather than false information intended to undermine Khamenei, 56, who was selected to replace his dead father as supreme leader on March 8.
5Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei may be gay, according to US intelligence briefed to President Trump.via REUTERS
Two of the sources said the intelligence indicated that Mojtaba, who earned the nickname “the power behind the robes” while serving as his aging dad’s gatekeeper, has had a long-term sexual relationship with his childhood tutor.
The third source said the intelligence indicated the affair was with a person who formerly worked for the Khamenei family.
Mojtaba, who is believed to have been wounded in the same Feb. 28 airstrike that killed his father and other members of his family, has made “aggressive” sexual overtures to men caring for him, possibly while under the influence of heavy medication, one of The Post’s sources said.
5President Trump and aides reportedly laughed aloud at the intelligence report.REUTERS
5Mojtaba’s father, the former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, allegedly suspected his son was gay, sources said.AFP via Getty Images
US spy agencies do not have photographic evidence of Mojtaba Khamenei’s alleged sexual attraction to men, but the sources insisted the tip is solid, with one saying it was “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,” added a second source.
Mojtaba’s purported sexual orientation had been whispered about inside Iran since at least the May 2024 helicopter crash that killed then-president Ebrahim Raisi, Ali Khamenei’s presumed favorite to be the next supreme leader, sources said.
Within the US government, “it’s been a pretty closely held piece of information,” one insider said.
Trump previously dismissed Mojtaba Khamenei as a “lightweight” and an “unacceptable” choice to run Iran. The new supreme leader is widely considered to be someone who would not bend to US demands to abandon the nuclear and ballistic missile programs that prompted Operation Epic Fury.
5Mojtaba Khamenei allegedly has carried on a years-long relationship with a former tutor.via REUTERS
Some elements of Mojtaba Khamenei’s sex life have been reported before and may lend credence to the allegation.
A classified US diplomatic cable from 2008, published by WikiLeaks, described Mojtaba being treated in the UK for impotence, though that report did not identify what may have caused the condition.
The State Department file says that 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, reportedly died in the airstrike that killed his father. The new supreme leader has another son and a daughter.
5The theocracy’s top man has made “aggressive” sexual advances while receiving medical care, one source said.KHAMENEI.IR/AFP via Getty Images
The allegation of homosexuality was alluded to in a CBS News report on Sunday that said the elder Khamanei, who had ruled Iran since 1989, preferred a different successor in part because of unspecified “issues” in Mojtaba’s “personal life.”
“His father and others suspected he was gay and that was something that people were spreading to try to stop his ascension,” one of The Post’s sources explained.
Homosexual conduct is illegal in Iran, though the government does allow surgical sex change operations, which some gay men reportedly are pressured into undergoing to avoid criminal penalties.
Sodomy is a capital offense in the nation of 93 million people, with some gay Iranians infamously hanged from construction cranes as a warning to others.
“In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals,” former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is believed to be an ally of the younger Khamenei, claimed in 2007.
One of The Post’s sources said that although it’s generally frowned upon to out people against their will, there’s a clear case of hypocrisy to justify doing so against Mojtaba.
“If there was ever a time where it was OK to out somebody, it would be when it’s a leader of a repressive Islamic theocracy that hangs gay people by cranes,” this person said.
Mojtaba Khamenei’s current whereabouts and the status of his recovery from the Feb. 28 airstrikes remain murky.
The White House did not provide comment for this article.
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