Hours after Iran confirmed the death of the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Israeli news outlets are reporting that his body was recovered following the Israeli-US strikes.
Hours after Iran confirmed the death of the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Israeli news outlets are reporting that his body was recovered following the Israeli-US strikes. According to Israel’s Channel 12, a photograph of Khamenei’s body was shown to both US President Donald Trump and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The report cited unnamed Israeli officials confirming the news. Public broadcaster Kan also reported that senior Israeli officials had been informed of Khamenei’s “elimination” and that his body was recovered from the rubble of his compound in Tehran.
The Iranian state media has also confirmed that apart from Khamenei, his daughter, grandchild, daughter-in-law and son-in-law were killed in US-Israeli strikes that began Saturday morning. Meanwhile, Iran’s Defence Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh and the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Mohammad Pakpour, have also been killed in the strikes.
Conflict escalates
The confirmation of the killings is coming a day after Israel and the US unleashed large-scale strikes against Iran, targeting multiple locations in the West Asian nation. The targeted areas also included Khamenei’s compound. Satellite images later showed heavy damage to the complex, which serves as his official residence.
Israeli officials said that the compound had been destroyed during the operation, and media reports described growing indications that the Iranian leader had been killed. Things became clearer after Trump confirmed the news in a post on TruthSocial.
Trump said that Khamenei was dead, calling it justice for people affected by his leadership and saying the operation had been carried out in coordination with Israel. Netanyahu also said there were “many signs” suggesting that the Iranian leader was no longer alive following the strikes, though no direct evidence was publicly released. Eventually, the Iranian state broadcaster also confirmed the demise of the leader who has been ruling the country since 1989.
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