Foreign media confirmed that Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed in a US-Israeli airstrike. This news was confirmed by Iranian state television early Sunday morning (today) in Iran’s standard time. In addition, the US president also announced Khomeini’s death on his social media account, and Trump said that “the most evil man in human history has been removed.”
However, Iran’s foreign minister has said that its supreme leader is still alive.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme leader for nearly four decades, died at the age of 86.
The Shah was overthrown by the Iranian Revolution in 1979, and Khomeini, who was abroad at the time, returned to Iran and became its spiritual leader. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians celebrated Khomeini’s return, and he quickly became a very popular leader.
But he ruled Iran according to strict Islamic principles and turned it into a secular fundamentalist state. At the same time, the people lost the freedoms enjoyed under the Shah and Khomeini contributed to creating unrest in the Gulf by entering a war with Iraq.
Under Khomeini’s leadership, Iran acquired nuclear power and at the same time, Iran had to face American sanctions. Khomeini took a tough stance to suppress the growing public opposition, and it is said that he ordered the shooting of more than 8,000 people during the suppression of the public opposition two months earlier.
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