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Tehran confirms Khamenei’s martyrdom
01-03-2026
TEHRAN: Iranian state media confirms the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the US and Israel’s ongoing attacks on the country.
Iranian state media say Khamenei’s daughter, son-in-law, and grandson were also killed.
US President Donald Trump, who announced “major combat operations” in Iran after Israel launched missile attacks on Saturday, says the bombing will continue “uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary” to achieve his objectives.
Iranian state media say a strike on a school in southern Iran has killed at least 108 people, and that at least 201 people have been killed across 24 provinces.
Iran’s retaliatory attacks have targeted Israel and US assets in multiple Middle East countries, including Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
Several countries across the region have shut their airspace amid the exchange of attacks.
IRGC mourns ‘great leader’, vows revenge
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has responded to Khamenei’s death, saying “we have lost a great leader and we mourn him”, according to a statement carried by Fars news agency.
It added that Khamenei’s “martyrdom at hands of the most vicious terrorists and executioners of humanity is a sign of the legitimacy of this great leader and the acceptance of his sincere services”.
It added that the “Iranian nation’s hand of revenge…will not let them go”.
The IRGC will stand “firm in confronting domestic and foreign conspiracies,” the statement said.
Killing of Khamenei will make him ‘a symbol’ for supporters
It all depends on how things are going to end up with this war.
Of course, for his supporters, of course for those who believe in the Wilayat al-Faqih, which is the doctrine the Islamic revolution came with, he is going to be a symbol.
He is going to be cemented as a symbol and the fact that he was killed will elevate him to probably the same level as the (Ruhollah) Khomeini, who was the founder of the Republic, a man who made the revolution.
Ali Khamenei will become almost equal to Khomeini, given this legacy.
Iran will mourn Khamenei amid continued bombardment
We are getting reports of people pouring out into the streets of the Iranian capital, Tehran, following the news report of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s killing.
There will be expected ceremonies down the road following the earlier announcement of a 40-day mourning period.
These ceremonies will likely take place amid the continuing bombardment across the country. A few hours ago, we heard another sound of a massive explosion here in the capital.
Who was Ali Khamenei?
Khamenei took the helm of the Islamic republic in 1989 following the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the charismatic leader who had spearheaded the Islamic revolution a decade earlier.
While Khomeini was the ideological force behind the revolution that ended the rule of the Pahlavi monarchy, it was Khamenei who shaped the military and paramilitary apparatus that form both Iran’s defence against its enemies, and provide it with influence well beyond its borders.
Before becoming supreme leader, he had led Iran as president through a bloody war with Iraq in the 1980s.
The grinding conflict, coupled with a sense of isolation among many Iranians as Western countries backed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, deepened Khamenei’s distrust of the West generally and the United States, in particular, analysts say.
That sentiment would underpin his decades-long rule and cement the idea that Iran must remain in a constant state of defence against external and internal threats. (Int’l News Desk)
