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🚨 Two luxury London penthouses linked to the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei are being forced onto the market as sanctions begin squeezing the regime elite’s hidden wealth abroad. The properties at 3A Palace Green in Kensington, overlooking Kensington Palace and less than 50 metres from the Israeli Embassy, were purchased for a combined £35.75 million in 2014 and 2016. One five-bedroom duplex bought for £19 million is now listed for just under £12 million after going into receivership. The registered owner is Iranian banker Ali Ansari, whom the United States Treasury designated as a “key financier” for Mojtaba Khamenei. Treasury says Ansari diverted publicly funded Iranian wealth into an enormous overseas network of real estate and commercial holdings benefiting Mojtaba Khamenei, his family, other Islamic Republic elites and the IRGC. Treasury says Ansari “institutionalized large-scale embezzlement” and invested the Iranian people’s money into properties across the United Kingdom, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Cyprus, the UAE and elsewhere. Britain froze Ansari’s assets over his financial support for the IRGC. After he defaulted on the mortgages, receivers took control and the properties were put up for sale. Any money remaining after lenders are repaid is expected to remain frozen. The symbolism is staggering. While ordinary Iranians were crushed by inflation, sanctions and economic hardship, Iranian public wealth was being plundered and moved abroad to build luxury property empires for the Islamic Republic’s ruling elite. These £36 million penthouses are only one visible piece of that network. Now the sanctions squeeze is reaching the fortunes that the Islamic Republic’s elite spent decades building outside Iran. The money was stolen from Iranians. The luxury was enjoyed by the ruling elite. Now their overseas empire is being frozen and liquidated piece by piece.

The European Union has officially joined Operation Economic Outcast and we appreciate their strong and early stance. The United States stands firm with our allies in ensuring the murderous Iranian regime cannot exploit the global financial system to fund its nuclear ambitions, weapons programs, and terror proxies. The world is sending a clear message to the Iranian regime: We will not stop until every remaining financial lifeline has been severed.