Ayatollah Khamenei confirmed dead after US-Israel strikes | ABC NEWS
Iranian state media has confirmed the country’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is dead after the US and Israel launched air strikes against the Islamic regime.
US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are urging the Iranian population to overthrow the government and take control of the control.
Former Middle East correspondent Nick Dole says the Iranian Revolutionary Guard would be scrambling to prevent a power vacuum in the wake of the Ayatollah’s death.
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