
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei dead after IDF strike hits Tehran compound, Israeli source confirms
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Iran's militant supreme leader Khamenei dies in Israel-U.S. strike, ending decades of anti-American rule and regional proxy warfare in the Middle East.
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"Khamenei’s worldview was shaped by his militant anti-Americanism and antisemitism, which first manifested itself in his protests against the Shah of Iran," he added.
Born April 19, 1939, in Mashhad, eastern Iran, Khamenei was among the Islamist activists who played a central role in the 1979 revolution that overthrew the U.S.-backed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. A close ally of Iran’s first supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Khamenei rose through the new system and served as president from 1981 to 1989 before becoming supreme leader after Khomeini’s death that same year.













