🚨 US–Israel attack on Iran: Here’s the latest

◻️ Iranian state media has confirmed the death of the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in his compound in the capital Tehran

◻️ More than 200 people have already been killed during the US–Israel strikes on Iran, according to the Red Crescent

◻️ Israeli military carried out a new series of attacks on about 30 sites in the Islamic Republic

◻️ Number of people killed in a strike on a girls’ school in the southern Iranian city of Minab has soared to 118

◻️ Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched a “sixth wave” of missile and drone counterattacks on Israel and US bases in the region

◻️ Iranian drone strike damaged Bahrain International Airport, following Iran’s attacks on two airports in the United Arab Emirates and one in Kuwait

▫️ Large cloud of black smoke was seen over Erbil Air Base in Iraq, home to a contingent of US troops, after Iran’s Fars News Agency reported about heavy explosions in the area

Statements

🔸 IRGC announced the beginning of "the most brutal offensive operation in the history of Iran’s Armed Forces" after the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

🔸 Assassination of Khamenei is a “big crime” that “will never go unanswered,” Iran’s presidential office warned, pledging that they “will force those who organized and carried out this crime to repent”

🔸 US President Donald Trump warned that Iran would face an even stronger attack if it tries to respond

🔸 Iran was ready for US and Israeli attacks and had “prepared itself for all possible scenarios, even [actions] following the death of the Supreme Leader,” Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf noted

🔸 US and Israeli military operation against Iran was a “true betrayal of diplomacy,” Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia underscored

🔸 Iran's Permanent Representative to the UN Amir Saeid Iravani thanked Russia, China, and Pakistan for condemning the US and Israel’s “unlawful act” of military aggression against the Islamic Republic

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🚨🚨🚨 Major General Abdulrahim Mousavi, Chief of the General Staff of Iran's Armed Forces, has been killed, Iranian agency Fars reports

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🚨 Ship tracking imagery shows traffic halted at both ends of Strait of Hormuz

The latest images reveal that most vessels, with the exception of Iranian and Chinese naval ships, have stopped on either side of the strait and are not risking passage through it.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷Iran closes Persian Gulf to US vessels — Top official announces

Mohsen Rezaee, a member of Iran's Expediency Discernment Council declares that access to the Persian Gulf is now closed to American ships.

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📹Protesters in support of Iran torched a UN office in Skardu, Pakistan — report

Protests erupted after reports that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in US and Israeli strikes on Iran.

Unverified footage shows smoke rising from the building.

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🇮🇷 Iranian president vows revenge for Khamenei’s death

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Sunday pledged to avenge the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Israeli and US strikes, saying Tehran views retaliation as its legitimate right.

“Iran considers it its duty and legitimate right to avenge this historic crime and intends to use all available means to fulfill this great obligation,” Pezeshkian said in a statement circulated by his office.

He also expressed condolences over Khamenei’s death, adding that “the path of this great man will be continued.”

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🇮🇷 Iranians gather at Revolution Square in Tehran following confirmation of Ayatollah Khamenei’s death

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