Iran has announced 40 days of national mourning to honour its Suoreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The announcement comes after the US and Israel said Khamenei was killed following a barrage of joint US-Israeli strikes on the nation.
US President Donald Trump said Saturday that Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed in air strikes.
“Khameini, one of the most evil people in History, is dead,” Trump said on his Truth Social network.
Multiple Iranian state media are confirming the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“The Supreme Leader of Iran Has Reached Martyrdom,” state broadcaster IRIB reported Sunday morning.
“This great scholar and mujahid (fighter) sacrificed his life to lift Iran… and he is in the grand presence of martyrs above,” said the state affliated Mehr news outlet.
