Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: The leader who shaped Iran’s defiance
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Iran’s supreme leader has been killed in a joint US-Israeli air strike.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been killed in an attack by Israel and the United States. He was 86.
Iranian state media confirmed the death in the early hours on Sunday after US President Donald Trump said that Khamenei had been killed in a joint US-Israeli air strike that hit his compound on Saturday.
“It is announced to the Iranian people that His Eminence Grand Ayatollah Imam Sayyid Ali Khamenei, Leader of the Islamic Revolution, was martyred in the joint attack launched by America and the Zionist regime on the morning of Saturday, February 28,” Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported. Iranian state media said that Khamenei’s daughter, son-in-law, and grandson were also killed.
Trump said earlier that Khamenei and other Iranian officials ”couldn’t escape US intelligence and the advanced tracking systems”.
Khamenei took the helm in Iran in 1989, following the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the charismatic leader who had spearheaded the Islamic revolution a decade earlier.
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Iran’s supreme leader has been killed in a joint US-Israeli air strike.