Iran’s newly appointed supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, owns two luxury London apartments “overlooking the Israeli embassy” in west London, British newspapers reported, citing information derived from a Bloomberg investigation into what it called Khamenei’s sprawling international property empire.
The two apartments, acquired by Mojtaba through various intermediaries in 2014 and 2016 but only traced to him recently, are located on the sixth and seventh floors of a building on the same street as the embassy, Palace Green in Kensington, the Evening Standard and Daily Mail reported on Sunday.
The Times of London also reported, on March 5, that the apartment building in question “sits next to the Israeli embassy on Palace Green.”
The reports emerged after four Iranian and British-Iranian men were arrested in London early on Friday under suspicion of surveilling “locations and individuals” linked to London’s Jewish community.
The Daily Mail quoted a terrorism and security specialist saying that the location of the apartments means “Iran owns the view into the back of the Israeli Embassy from less than 50 metres away.”
