Khamenei-linked London penthouses go on sale amid sanctions and receivership
Two luxury London penthouses linked to Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei have been placed for sale in a receivership process; one is a five-bedroom duplex bought for £19m in 2016 and now listed for just under £12m, the other occupies the seventh and eighth floors with an undisclosed price. The registered owner, Iranian banker Ali Ansari, is under U.S. sanctions, and lenders’ receivership follows mortgage defaults, highlighting how sanctions complicate the regime’s overseas assets.