Iran Obit Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
FILE- In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei listens to the then commander of the Revolutionary Guard Mohammad Ali Jafari during a graduation ceremony of a group of the guard's officers in Tehran, Iran, May 20, 2015.
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades as its supreme leader and sought to turn it into a regional powerhouse, has been killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes. He was 86. Iranian state media reported the death early Sunday, after a major attack launched by Israel and the United States. U.S. President Donald Trump said hours earlier that Khamenei had been killed in the joint operation. Khamenei dramatically remolded the Islamic Republic since he took the reins after the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989. He brought the country into confrontation with Israel and the United States over its nuclear program while crushing democracy protesters at home.
