He has had a serious condition since he was born.
Islam is a cancer.
Not to mention that MeK tried to assassinate him in the early 1980s. Only his right arm was seriously injured. Ever since, he apparently shakes hands with his left hand. Kinda appropriate too; he was partly educated in the USSR, and is/was known to be a ‘leftist’ Islamist, as opposed to, say, Ahmadi-Nejad who is known to be a right-wing Islamist.