“The Million-Pound Baby” Rumor Debunked: Iranian Leader’s Grandchild Born in Tehran, Not London

According to Saed News, Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, senior member of Iran’s Expediency Council and father-in-law to Mojtaba Khamenei—son of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei—has publicly refuted circulating online rumors regarding the birthplace of the Leader’s newest grandchild.

In a recent speech delivered at a mosque in Tehran, Haddad-Adel criticized what he called a “deliberate disinformation effort” aimed at tarnishing the image of Iran’s top leadership. He referenced widely shared footage on social media alleging that Mojtaba Khamenei, his wife, and her mother, accompanied by 20 bodyguards, traveled to London, rented an entire floor at an upscale hotel, and spent nearly two months there for the child’s birth—allegedly costing over £1 million.

“These lies became so pervasive that even friends and acquaintances began asking me why my daughter had gone to London without informing anyone,” Haddad-Adel recounted. He emphatically stated that the baby was in fact born at Resalat Hospital, a modest grade-three facility in Tehran’s Seyed Khandan neighborhood, under the care of Dr. Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi—a respected physician who, he noted, accepted no payment for her services. The total cost of the birth, he said, was merely 500,000 tomans (less than $10 at the current exchange rate).

He likened the rumor to a farcical myth, calling it “a lie even greater than the tale of Hasan and Hossein being daughters of Muawiyah.” Haddad-Adel concluded by accusing opposition figures and hostile media of fabricating such stories to undermine public trust in the Supreme Leader, and warned that similar disinformation campaigns are likely to continue in the digital age.