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WATCH: GB News attempts to find Iran's new Supreme Leader in his luxury London home
Mar 11, 2026
This is the moment GB News' Joe Kasper attempted to find Iran's new Supreme Leader at his luxury London home.With Mojtaba Khamenei - still notably silent after his "election" as Ayatollah - said to own multiple properties in the capital, Britain's News Channel went to track him down.Joe was palmed away over the intercom outside one luxe apartment building.He then spoke to locals in a bid to find out whether they had ever encountered the mysterious Supreme Leader on "Billionaire's Row".Neighbours were left horrified to discover who had been living on their street - while others said it was a "disgrace" that he could own properties in Britain.But outside another residence, incredibly overlooking the Israeli embassy, Joe received a mysterious reception...WATCH THE CLIP ABOVE FOR MORE
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So we're here in North London, Bishops Avenue, aka Billionaires Row, where we
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understand that the new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khomeini, owns a number of properties
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We're gonna knock on those properties, ask some questions and also ask locals if
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they've seen this man. Right let's try a property number one. Hello? Hi there. I'm from GB News. We want to talk to the owners of... Yes
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Which ones? Eva is fine, but they're both the same. Yes. So there's no one available right now
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Okay, it's just that they have links to the Iran Supreme Leader and we just wanted to ask if they're comfortable with that
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Okay, here we've got 20 flats here, you know, so, you know, there's 20 different flats here, so I can't let you in to speak to these people because, like, some of the people here, you know, we've got some people here from Japan, we've got some people here from Germany, we've got some people from all over here
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Sure, sure. Thank you. Bye-bye. Okay, thank you. You haven't seen this guy before? Not personally
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Not up close. He owns a few properties around here. We know. We live not far from here
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What do you think about him owning these properties? Do you think that..
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I think it's a disgrace. Do you think that the government should seize them and sell them off
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I don't know. Would that be legal? I don't know. You know, they're so fussy about being legal in this government
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I mean he's probably not the only one who has properties along here
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I think that's right yeah I mean I think his money should all go to the people
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There's people starving in those countries And he's killing people He's killing his own citizens
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And I think they tried to do it with Russia didn't they They did it with Abramovich
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But I think they really struggled As in the UK government really struggled
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They still got a lot of money from Abramovich Yeah And they froze all the assets So yes is the answer They should do the same They should do the same Yes Absolutely
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He's criminal. Seen him around here? Around here, yeah. Do you know who he is
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Do you know this man? Do you know him? He's an Iranian adjatollah
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Do you know he owns this property here? Yeah. Do you live around here? No, I love the man
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Hello? Is anyone there? We'd like to talk to the supreme leader of Iran. The owner of
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these properties. Anyone there? Why don't we give them a call? Let's give the security
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here a call. Hi there, I'm looking to speak to a I believe he owns a company called
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Security. Okay, then what's your name? My name's Joe and I work for GB News
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Thank you, Joe. And he's actually just on the phone at the moment. Do you want me to ask him to give you a call
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Yes, please. That'd be great. And what is it regarding, sorry, Joe? It's regarding the property that looks after
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Okay, no problem. I'll let him know Joe and ask him to contact you
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Okay, thank you. So we've tried the next property. It doesn't seem like anyone's at home
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It's a number of houses here. All of them seem to be empty. They're pretty derelict
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They're in a bad way. People haven't lived here for years, clearly
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I've tried screaming, shouting, asking for the Iranian leader. anyone that lives here. So onto the next property, incredibly derelict, you can just
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see through there there's a greenhouse where a lot of windows are smashed
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through and it's clear that no one's lived here for years. I mean you can just look there's like moss that's all grown over, the gates
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are rusted and then the garden is just overgrown It very out of place in a road where everything so perfectly kept
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The gardens are well maintained. Remember, these properties go for at least 4 million as much as 25 million
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And there are Bentleys, Rolls Royces, Ferraris down here. So people are very proud of their properties here, but the person who lives here or lives
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here clearly is not. I mean, it's obvious that no one's lived here for years
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I'm just looking through now. You can't really see it on the camera, but there's a little walkway up to the house
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a white house. There's some bins, there's a settee cushion and just overgrown bushes
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I mean it's not even connected so... It's just, yeah, there's no pointers there
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It's not connected to anything. Still getting their post
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Not more of the same isn't it? Just derelict. Very out of place
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Especially in the property opposite. It's beautiful. Have you seen this guy recently
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Not around here haven't you? No. No definitely not. He owns a few properties
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Oh, I've been told that, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think he owns about three dozen, I read in the Times
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Yeah, and they're quite, they're all very expensive, obviously. It would be expensive around here, yeah
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Do you live around here? Yes. Yeah, I mean, what do you think that could be one of your neighbours, or owns a property
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Pretty horrifying. Yeah. I've lived in this road for 45 years. Really
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Yeah, a long time. I mean, and you've never seen him? No, never. He's owned the property for at least 10 years, I see
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So I've read in the Times, I believe, yes. Do you think the government should intervene and seize these properties Like they have with our prevendors I think they struggled I think legally they probably had a problem being at the end
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But do you think they should go further? I mean, arguably what he's doing is worse than what Putin did
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Yes, because they killed thousands of their own people, you're quite right. Whether they should take over is for, I don't know
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If you do that, then you're going to start taking over everybody's properties, aren't you? You know, it's not going to be that easy to do
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Thank you very much. Okay, my pleasure. So we've tried all the properties on Bishops Avenue
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No answer. It's clear that there were a few of them. They haven't been there for years
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I did eventually find a firm for that security company. It turns out the security company has been liquidated since 2021
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But I found a phone number on its accounts documents online. I've tried them
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I gave them a call. They're going to give me a call back, so we'll just wait for that to happen
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I'm not going to hold my breath, though. We're now in Kensington in West London, where just behind me in a block of flats
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the Supreme Leader owns a couple of properties. A couple of doors down, you can see the Israeli embassy
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Now, there have been security issues about the position of the Supreme Leader's flats
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and that he's been monitoring the situation in the embassy. So I'm going to go and knock on the door and see if he's in
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So we're actually not allowed to film down on that road because it's a private property
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But what you're about to hear is me going on to the intercom and asking if the Supreme Leader is there
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We felt that it was in the public interest to ask these questions. Hello, I'm looking to talk to the Supreme Leader
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I work for GB News. I believe he has a number of properties here
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I've hung up. So no sign of the Supreme Leader in North or West London
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and I'm still waiting for that phone call from the security firm that looked after a few of his properties on Bishops Avenue
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But what next for these properties that are quite clearly derelict and empty
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Now, there have been calls for the UK government to seize them or to place sanctions on them
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similar to what they did on Russian properties for the Ukraine war
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