Hours before confirming the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s state media also confirmed that his daughter, son-in-law and grandchild were also killed amid the US-Israel strikes
Hours before confirming the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s state media also confirmed that his daughter, son-in-law and grandchild were also killed amid the
US-Israel strikes. The confirmation was delivered by Fars News agency on Sunday, citing sources close to the Iranian supreme leader’s office.
As per the report, the deaths were confirmed after contact was established with informed sources at the supreme leader’s residence. The Iranian agency also reported that one of the supreme leader’s daughters-in-law was killed in a Saturday morning attack. However, it did not provide details about the circumstances of the attack.
After long speculations, Iran’s state TV has just confirmed that the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the Israel-US strike on the battered
West Asian nation. The news was confirmed by Tehran on Sunday.
Khamenei died on Saturday morning
The state TV presenter shared the news in a tearful address and said that the country will enter 40 days of mourning in honour of the Iranian supreme leader. Meanwhile, the Iranian National Security Council issued a statement mourning the death of Khamenei and insisting that his death would be a “will be the launchpad for a great uprising against the tyrants”.
Iranian media later confirmed that the Iranian supreme leader was killed in the early hours of Saturday, right when Israel and the US launched their attack against Iran. Sharing the details, Iran’s Fars news agency said that Khamenei was killed at his office while “performing his assigned duties” in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Interestingly, Iran confirmed the news of Khamenei’s death just one hour after US President Donald Trump announced his death. Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform that an 86-year-old was killed in the joint US-Israel strikes.
“He was unable to avoid our Intelligence and Highly Sophisticated Tracking Systems and, working closely with Israel, there was not a thing he, or the other leaders that have been killed along with him, could do,” the US president wrote. “This is the single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their Country,” he said. “Hopefully, the IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] and Police will peacefully merge with the Iranian Patriots.”
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