{"id":253590,"date":"2026-06-03T11:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/253590\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T11:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:05:19","slug":"trump-predicts-meeting-with-irans-probably-gay-supreme-leader-mojtaba-khamenei-getting-along-quite-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/253590\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump predicts meeting with Iran’s probably gay Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei: ‘Getting along quite well’"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump said in a \u201cPod Force One\u201d interview out Wednesday that he expects to meet Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and the at-war leaders are \u201cgetting along quite well\u201d despite sputtering peace talks.<\/p>\n

Mojtaba, 56, hasn\u2019t been seen in public since the war started on Feb. 28 with surprise US-Israeli airstrikes that reportedly injured him and killed his father<\/a>, the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and other members of his family.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s involved, absolutely. Yeah, I think they have a lot of respect for him,\u201d Trump said of the younger Khamenei, whose seclusion has resulted in peace talks being protracted by a days-long process of snail-mail couriers.<\/p>\n

\"MirandaPresident Trump told The Post\u2019s Miranda Devine that he\u2019s interested in meeting Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t had the privilege of meeting him\u2026 If you believe the stories, he\u2019s missing a lot of different parts,\u201d Trump told The Post\u2019s Miranda Devine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey say he is giving approval, because that\u2019s the way it has been for a long, long time. His father and then him, I guess it\u2019s a succession. But we seem to be getting along quite well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked about a possible meeting, Trump told Devine: \u201cYeah, I\u2019d like to meet him. I\u2019d love to meet everybody. I would like to meet him and we probably will meet at some point, depending on how it all works out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump has unconventionally welcomed in-person contact with other American adversaries, arguing the norms-busting approach can forge relationships that make the country safer.<\/p>\n

\"MojtabaMojtaba Khamenei hasn\u2019t been seen in public since surviving Feb. 28 airstrikes that killed his family members. ISNA\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

During his first term, Trump exchanged what he referred to as \u201clove letters\u201d with nuclear-armed North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, with whom he met three times, de-escalating atomic saber-rattling.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Also during his first term, Trump planned to host the Taliban at Camp David for peace talks, before the idea was scrapped.<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s shifting tone on Mojtaba Khamenei is notable.<\/p>\n

Trump previously dismissed\u00a0him as a \u201clightweight\u201d and an \u201cunacceptable\u201d choice to run Iran<\/a> and said the rumors about his sexuality<\/a> put \u201chim off to a bad start in that particular country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump was briefed by intelligence officials in March that Mojtaba was probably gay<\/a> \u2014 with the president and other aides laughing aloud at the unconfirmed spy-agency lead, which suggested he\u2019s had a long-term romantic relationship with a childhood tutor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump said in a \u201cPod Force One\u201d interview out Wednesday that he expects to meet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,14670,66834,9,11,10,14121,87,58],"class_list":["post-253590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-mojtaba-khamenei","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-pod-force-one","tag-politics","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}