Iran confirms Khamenei’s death as regional strikes intensify
“ProPakistani reports Iranian state media has confirmed the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after US and Israeli strikes.”
Key points
- ProPakistani reports Iranian state media has confirmed the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after US and Israeli strikes.
- The story also describes retaliatory attacks across the region and a rising humanitarian toll inside Iran.
Iranian state media has reported that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed following large-scale US and Israeli airstrikes across Iran.
The report says US President Donald Trump claimed Khamenei was killed during a joint operation and signaled that further bombing would continue.
Citing two sources described as one intelligence and one military, the article says dozens of Iranian officials were killed in the strikes, and that Israel separately claimed it eliminated multiple senior officials.
The report further states Iran responded with retaliatory attacks across the Middle East, with reports of strikes in locations including Dubai, Doha, Bahrain, and Kuwait.
It also describes a growing humanitarian toll inside Iran, citing Iran’s Red Crescent as saying more than 200 people were killed nationwide, and Iranian officials reporting fatalities after strikes hit a girls’ school.
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