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Top updates: Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei killed in US-Israel attacks, says state media
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a joint United States-Israeli military operation on Sunday, the country’s state media reported.
His daughter, grandchild, daughter-in-law and son-in-law were also killed in the strike.
Hours earlier, US President Donald Trump had posted on social media stating: “Khamenei, one of the most evil people in history, is dead.”
Khamenei, 86, had served as Iran’s supreme leader since 1989. He controlled all branches of the government and the armed forces.
Here’s more on this and other top updates from the conflict in West Asia:
On Saturday, Israel and the US launched a joint operation to degrade the capabilities of the Iranian government. Iran retaliated to the attacks and said that the US-Israeli operation had begun while the nuclear negotiations were on.
The attacks came amid tensions between the three countries over Tehran’s nuclear programme. Washington acts as a guarantor of Israel’s security. Israel has been claiming that Iran is “closer than ever” to obtaining a nuclear weapon, which could alter the regional security balance.
Iran has long maintained that its nuclear programme is for civilian purposes.
However, amid fears of a potential attack, with a heavy US military deployment off its coast in recent months, Tehran had been forced to reopen negotiations with Washington about its nuclear programme.
On Saturday, the Israeli military said that it had identified missiles launched from Iran toward Israel and that its defence systems were intercepting the threat. Iran had on Saturday also launched strikes on US military installations in Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar, AP reported. Sites in Riyadh were also reportedly struck.
In Saturday’s strikes in southern Iran, more than 100 childrenwere killed when an Israeli strike hit an elementary girls’ school in Minab in Hormozgan province, the BBC quoted Iravani as saying. “The number of innocent civilians continues to rise,” Iravani said. “This is not only an act of aggression, it is a war crime and a crime against humanity.”
Israel’s emergency service said on Saturday that a woman was killed in the Tel Aviv area after Iran’s missile attack, AFP reported.
On Saturday, India said that it was “deeply concerned” about the recent developments in Iran and the Gulf. The Ministry of External Affairs urged all sides to exercise restraint, avoid escalation and prioritise the safety of civilians. “Dialogue and diplomacy should be pursued to de-escalate tensions,” it said in a statement.
The Indian diplomatic missions are in contact with Indian citizens, the statement said, adding that advisories had been issued asking them to be vigilant. The Indian embassies in Tehran and Tel Aviv had asked citizens to exercise caution and avoid unnecessary movements.
In view of the conflict, large swathes of its airspace became a no-go zone forcing global and Indian airlines to cancel flights to the region and reroute several others to avoid the affected corridors on Saturday.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation too issued an urgent safety advisory valid until Monday for all airlines to avoid 11 countries in the region comprising Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar and Oman, The Hindu reported.
The US has repeatedly demanded that Iran give up its nuclear programme, threatening that Tehran must meet its terms or face consequences.
Khamenei had warned on February 1 that an attack by the US would spark a “regional war”.
Israel had been preparing for a possible conflict with Iran for several weeks.
In June, Tehran and Tel Aviv agreed to a ceasefire after 12 days of hostilities.
At the time, the Israeli military had struck what it claimed were nuclear targets, and other sites, in Iran with the aim of stalling Tehran’s nuclear programme. Iran retaliated with missile attacks on Israel.
Both countries had later accused each other of violating the ceasefire.
The two countries had been nudged by the US to accept the ceasefire after Washington on June 22 joined Israel’s war against Iran. The US military had carried out what Trump had described as a “very successful attack” on Iranian nuclear sites in Fordo, Natanz and Esfahan.
While Trump had claimed at the time that Iran’s nuclear facilities had been “completely obliterated” in the attacks, Washington’s preliminary intelligence assessment had said that the strikes only set it back by a few months, and did not destroy its nuclear programme.
Trump’s fresh focus on Iran came after the US’ military operation in Venezuela. On January 3, the US military abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, for alleged drug trafficking.
Almost simultaneously, on December 28, protests erupted in Iran initially focused on discontent about rising inflation. However, they later expanded as demonstrations in more than 100 towns demanded an end to clerical rule.
More than 5,000 persons were killed in the crackdown on the protests, according to international rights groups.
Following this, Trump had announced that the US military was moving warships towards Iran “just in case” he wants to take action, saying that he was “watching them very closely”.
Also read: How the Israel-Iran conflict could impact India
Source: Scroll
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