Reports Say Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei Was Killed

Reports from Reuters have revealed that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been killed by the Israeli-US joint Military Airstrikes.

A senior Iranian official confirmed to Reuters that the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Tehran.

However, there has been no official confirmation of Khamenei’s death by the Iranian authorities. But Israeli’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that he is likely to be killed.

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The report says that some Israelis’ media outlets indicated that his body was found after several military strikes launched Saturday in Iran.

The aim of the strike as stressed earlier by the US President Donald Trump, was to kill Khamenei.

The incident comes at a time of escalating tensions between Iran, Israel and the United States, with missile attacks continuing in the Middle East.