High-level intelligence community officials charged with briefing the president of the United States on the crucial information ascertained through the most sophisticated sources and methods known to mankind exclusively shared with the New York Post’s national security reporting team the stunning revelation that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei is secretly a gay.

Sources present in the situation room when the explosive intelligence was conveyed to the president during a briefing last week described his reaction as stunned, which quickly turned to laughter that his mortal enemy is a gay. One senior intel official disclosed that he personally “has not stopped laughing about it for days,” and that the president has since been telling anyone and everyone he encounters that Mojtaba is a gay with a compulsion for male sexual contact.

“The fact that this was elevated to the highest of high levels shows you there’s some confidence in this,” another high level source told the newspaper. Another insisted the intel on Mojtaba’s gayness is “derived from one of the most protected sources that the government has,” and that, during ongoing treatment for his injuries purportedly sustained during an Israeli airstrike, Mojtaba made “aggressive” sexual overtures to his medical staff while under the influence of painkillers.

Intel officials did not elaborate on what the Iranian Supreme Leader’s alleged homosexuality may mean for permitting safe passage of transnational shipping through the contested Strait of Hormuz.