Iran’s supreme leader killed: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed, Iranian state media has confirmed, after a massive US-Israeli attack on the country that US President Donald Trump said would continue with heavy bombing throughout the week.
• About the strikes: Trump indicated the military operation is aimed at overturning Tehran’s government. One strike killed scores of students in an elementary school in southern Iran, according to state media.
• Unprecedented retaliation: Iran threatened the most ferocious offensive in its history after the supreme leader’s death. It has already unleashed strikes on US military bases, Israel and other targets across the Middle East, rocking densely populated areas and disrupting air travel and oil shipments.
• A region on edge: The United Arab Emirates called the attacks a “historic moment” in the Middle East, saying world leaders had failed to ensure the region’s stability.
Death toll at girls' school in US-Israel strike rises to 118
The number of people killed in a US-Israeli strike on a girls’ school in the southern Iranian city of Minab has risen to 118, Iranian state media reports.
CNN geolocated video from the scene to the Shajaba Tayyiba School in Southern Minab. It sits about 200 feet from an Iranian military base, and previously appears to have been part of the base, but satellite imagery shows that it has been separated from the base since at least 2016.
The school appears to have been previously part of the base, but satellite imagery shows that the two sites have been separated since at least 2016.
Shortly after the address, two Israeli officials said Israel had confirmed his death. The officials both spoke on condition of anonymity pending a formal announcement and gave no further details.
Khamenei succeeded Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. He had the final say on all major policies, leading Iran’s clerical establishment and its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard – the two main centers of power in the country’s theocracy.
As the attack on Iran unfolded, President Donald Trump urged the Iranian public to “seize control of your destiny” by rising up against the Islamic leadership. In a video announcing the “major combat operations,” Trump told Iranians that “when we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will be probably your only chance for generations.”
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