Mojtaba Khamenei

Journalists stated that he may "have played a leading role in orchestrating" Ahmadinejad's electoral victory, and that he may be "a key figure in orchestrating the crackdown against anti-government protesters" in June 2009, and directly in charge of the paramilitary Basij, a blackout of his name in the regime press notwithstanding. In an open letter, Mehdi Karroubi, ex-chairman of the Majlis (parliament) and a reformist candidate in the 2009 presidential vote, explicitly accused Mojtaba Khamenei of participating in a conspiracy to rig the election, referring to illegal interference of "a network".

Mojtaba is married to the daughter of former parliamentary speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel. His first son was born in 2007 whose name is Mohammad Bagher. The couple's second child, a girl born in 2013, was named Fatemeh Sadaat. The couple's third child, Mohammad Amin was born in 2017.

Mojtaba teaches theology in the Qom seminary. He was affiliated with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and supported Ahmadinejad in the 2005 and 2009 presidential elections.

Sayyid Mojtaba Hussaini Khamenei (Persian: سید مجتبی حسینی خامنه‌ای ‎; born 8 September 1969) is a son of Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran. He took part in the Iran–Iraq War operations between 1980 and 1988. He also reportedly took control of the Basij militia that was used to suppress the protests over the 2009 election.

Mojtaba was born in Mashhad in 1969, and is the second son of Ali Khamenei, the Supreme leader of Iran. After graduating from high school, he studied theology. His early teachers included his own father and Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi. In 1999, he continued his studies in Qom to become a cleric. Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani and Mohammad Bagher Kharazi were his teachers there.