#IranConfirmsKhameneiIsDead Iran begins 40-day mourning after Khamenei killed in US-Israeli attack

President Masoud Pezeshkian condemns killing of Iran’s supreme leader as ‘a great crime’, according to a statement from his office.Iran has begun 40 days of mourning after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in ongoing attacks by the United States and Israel, according to Iranian state media.

Top security officials were also killed in Saturday’s strikes, along with Khamenei’s daughter, son-in-law and grandson. The killings mark one of the most significant blows to Iran’s leadership since the 1979 Islamic revolution.