Iran affirms that the US-Israeli attack murdered Supreme Leader Khamenei.

Iranian official television stated early Sunday that Israel and the United States had carried out a catastrophic attack that murdered Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, casting doubt on the Islamic Republic’s survival and increasing the likelihood of instability in the area.

Hours earlier, President Donald Trump declared that the death provided Iranians their “greatest chance” to “take back” their nation.

The 86-year-old was murdered in an airstrike that targeted his downtown Tehran compound, according to state media. The site was badly attacked, according to Airbus satellite pictures.

He constantly stood among the people and in the forefront of his responsibilities, confronting what officials call global arrogance, as his death at his office “showed,” according to state TV.

Following an Israeli-US assault in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday, rubble is still present.

Trump posted on social media, saying, “Khamenei, one of the most evil people in history, is dead.” As part of a deadly attack that the US has justified as required to neutralize the nation’s nuclear weapons, he threatened “heavy and pinpoint bombing” that would continue throughout the week and even beyond.

Iran threatened retaliation after the strikes, launching its own counterattack in response. The Cabinet declared that this “great crime will never go unanswered.” The Revolutionary Guard, a paramilitary group, promised to attack American and Israeli bases in its “most intense offensive operation” to yet.

For an American president who came to power on a platform of “America First” and vowed to avoid “forever wars,” the attack marked a startling display of military power, opened a stunning new chapter in US intervention in Iran, and carried the risk of retaliatory violence and a wider war.

Since there was no recognized successor and the 86-year-old supreme leader had the last word on all significant matters throughout his decades in office, Khamenei’s death in the second Trump administration attack on Iran in eight months seemed set to leave a leadership void. He served as the head of the Revolutionary Guard and Iran’s clerical establishment, which were the two primary branches of the ruling theocracy.

Iran promptly established a council to run the nation until a new supreme leader is selected.

The leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and a senior security advisor to Khamenei were also killed in airstrikes, according to state media. Following Israel’s murder of the Guard’s previous leader during the 12-day conflict in June of last year, Maj. Gen. Mohammad Pakpour assumed command of the Guard. According to IRNA, Ali Shamkhani, the adviser, had long held a prominent position in Iran’s security apparatus.

In Mashhad, the second-largest city in Iran and a significant Shiite Muslim pilgrimage site, mourners hoisted a black mourning flag over the shrine of Imam Reza. To honor Khamenei’s passing, the Iranian government announced a seven-day national holiday and 40 days of public mourning.

The semiofficial Fars news agency, which is thought to be close to the Revolutionary Guard, stated that Khamenei’s daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter were among the other family members who were killed, citing unnamed sources.

Israel says the defense minister was killed.

Israel, on the other hand, claimed to have assassinated Khamenei’s close adviser, the secretary of the Iranian Security Council, the commander of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the nation’s defense minister.

There was nothing Khamenei or the other officials who were slain with him could do, according to Trump, because he “could not evade our Intelligence and Highly Sophisticated Tracking Systems and, working closely with Israel.” “This is the Iranian people’s best opportunity to reclaim their nation.”

The strikes killed and injured hundreds of people, an Iranian envoy told the UN Security Council. Firefights lasted into the night as Iran responded by launching missiles and drones against US military installations in the area as well as Israel.

(Web Desk) – Iranian state television verified Sunday that the US and Israeli strikes killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The 86-year-old’s death was reported by Iranian state television and the state-run IRNA news agency, but no cause was given.

Larijani: The Iranian nation will make the aggressors regret what they did.

The Iranian nation will make Israel and the United States regret their aggression against it, according to Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani.

Iranians demonstrate in the streets against US-Israeli aggression.

People protest the US-Israeli aggression against Iran by holding Iranian flags at a rally in Tehran, the country’s capital. Tehran, IRNA — In response to the ongoing war of aggression by Israel and the United States against Iran, people have spontaneously gathered in several Iranian towns to express their rage.

At least a dozen towns, including the capital Tehran, had crowded streets and famous squares. In protest of the two governments’ aggressiveness against Iran, demonstrators chanted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.”

“We shall force the vile Americans and Zionist criminals to repent their deeds. On Saturday, Larijani posted on his X account, “The brave soldiers and the great country of Iran will teach the tyrannical international devils an unforgettable lesson.”

Pahlavi says “liberation” is close for Iran.

Reza Pahlavi, the exiled prince of Iran, has praised the US and Israeli strikes that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, stating that the incident may be a watershed in Iran’s protracted war against the Islamic Republic.

In an opinion piece for The Washington Post, Pahlavi expressed gratitude to President Donald Trump for standing by the Iranian people and stated that the Iranian people themselves will ultimately determine the outcome.

He claimed that a democratic Iran might change the Middle East and said, “Even with U.S. and Israeli assistance, the final victory will be forged by the Iranian people.”

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was firm and healthy, despite claims to the contrary from Israeli authorities and US President Donald Trump.

According to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, there were indications that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, had been killed in an attack on his complex during US-Israeli operations.Netanyahu said in a televised announcement, “Ali Khamenei’s compound in the center of Tehran was destroyed this morning in a powerful surprise strike… and there are many signs that he is no longer alive.”

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a tremendous attack by the United States and Israel, according to President Donald Trump. Trump added that heavy bombing would continue throughout the week. Its leaders are “safe and sound,” according to Iran.

His fate was not immediately confirmed by Iran. Targeting Iran’s senior officials, the United States and Israel launched military strikes on the country on Saturday, engulfing the Middle East in a confrontation that President Donald Trump claimed would eliminate a security danger to the US and provide Iranians with an opportunity to overthrow their authorities.

According to the US president, “a lot” of Iranian leaders have been killed in US and Israeli strikes, he told ABC News.

Trump said, “A lot of it is, yeah,” in response to a direct question about whether the US thinks Iranian leaders were slain. Although we don’t know everything, we do know a lot. was a fairly strong blow.

The attacks will go for “as long as we wanted to,” he declared.

Israel kills seven senior Iranian officials

In a recent televised speech, Israeli military spokesman Effie Defrin asserted that Israel had killed multiple senior Iranian officials in attacks on Iran.

Ali Shamkhani, a close advisor to Supreme Leader Khamenei and the former secretary of Iran’s National Security Council, is the most well-known person Israel claimed to have murdered.

Defrin also claimed to have slain Iran’s defense minister, Amir Nasirzadeh, and Mohammad Pakpour, a commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

“Israeli warplanes targeted a number of locations throughout Iran, particularly missile launcher sites,” he added.

When a reporter inquired about the duration of military activities, Defrin did not specify a time period.

Trump says key Iranian decision-makers are “gone.”

According to US President Donald Trump, “the majority of the people who make all the decisions are gone.”

Regarding the alleged murder of Khamenei, which, as we have been reporting, has been reported by Reuters and the Israeli media, citing anonymous sources, Trump has made his most explicit remark to date.

“We feel that that is a correct story,” Trump said to NBC News in response to rumors that Khamenei had been slain.

Trump added that “the majority” of Iran’s top officials are “gone.”

He remarked, “The majority of the people who make all the decisions are gone.”

After Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, passed away in 1989, Khamenei, then 86, assumed the position of Iran’s supreme leader. In his capacity as supreme leader, he had last say over Iran’s armed forces, political system, and religious establishments, directing both foreign and internal affairs.

After the United States and Israel launched a “major combat operation” on Saturday, Iran launched a missile attack against Israel, further depressing hopes for a diplomatic resolution to Tehran’s long-running nuclear conflict with the West and thrusting the Middle East into a new military conflict.

Reports state that as part of operation “Fateh Khyber,” Iran unleashed a volley of drones and ballistic missiles, setting off air raid sirens throughout Israel.

According to reports, the strike targeted northern Israel, including the Hafizah neighborhood, where explosions were audible. The magnitude of the Iranian counterattacks was demonstrated by the explosions that also occurred in the capital, Tel Aviv.

Several missiles and drones were launched, according to Iranian military sources, and they hit strategic sites in Israel.