In the nearly 40 years he was in power, Khamanei was responsible, through proxies such as Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas, for the deaths of thousands of Israelis and Jews worldwide.
In a phone call interview, Trump told The Atlantic that he agreed to speak with Iranian representatives, but declined to specify whether a conversation would take place on Sunday or Monday.
he tension on this very familiar journey, one I make a few times a month, brought to mind a line from a book: “Up mountain roads/‘round hairpin curves/with eagle eyes/and steely nerves.”
In a separate interview with Fox News, Trump stated that 48 Iranian leaders had been "wiped out in one shot."
El Zahra Centre in Melbourne announced a Majlis [gathering] in commemoration of Khamenei, saying "We offer our condolences and congratulations to the presence of Imam Mahdi."
"In accordance with Article 111 of the Constitution, the Temporary Leadership Council has begun its work today," Pezeshkian said in the recorded statement.
The American and Israeli strikes “should have even happened earlier, last month, after what the regime did to the protesters,” a member of the Iranian diaspora asserted.
CENTCOM also cited US President Donald Trump's call for "members of Iran's armed forces, IRGC, and police to 'lay down your weapons,'" and to "Abandon ship!"
Two major headquarters which were struck were the Interior Ministry headquarters and the Tharallah headquarters in Tehran.
Three US soldiers were killed and five others wounded in ongoing Operation Epic Fury, US Central Command confirmed on Sunday.
Calling the Iranians a “paper tiger,” Asulin, a scholar at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA), said that the opening strike “was a lethal opening blow."
