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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. Iran state media has confirmed that the country's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, is dead. President Trump announced Khamenei's death Saturday on social media. The death came during the joint military operation by the US and Israel against Iran that continues at this hour. NPR's Daniel Estrin reports from Tel Aviv.
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A person briefed on the strike told NPR that ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader since 1989, was killed in Israeli strikes. Israeli media are reporting Khamenei's body has been pulled from the rubble. An Israeli military official told reporters that three separate gatherings of senior officials were struck simultaneously Saturday morning local time at the start of the joint U. S. Israeli attack on Iran. The official said several central government figures in Iran were killed. President Trump and Netanyahu have called on Iranians to rise up and topple the Iranian regime. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
Dale Willman (1:16)
An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council was called following the start of the U.S. and Israeli operation in Iran. At that meeting, U.S. ambassador Mike Waltz celebrated the strikes. He said they're a matter of global security because Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. And he laid out the Trump administration's
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objectives for the strikes to dismantle missile capabilities that threaten allies to degrade naval assets used to destabilize international waters and to disrupt the machinery that arms, proxy militias and to ensure the Iranian regime never, ever can threaten the world with a nuclear weapon.
Dale Willman (1:57)
UN Secretary of State Antonio Guterres called for an end to the hostilities and a return to talks between the US And Iran. Russia is condemning the strikes on Iran. In a statement, Russia's Foreign Ministry warned the attacks risk destabilizing the WIDER Middle East. NPR's Charles Mainz has more.
Charles Maynes (2:15)
The Foreign Ministry statement called the U. S. Israeli strikes on Iran a pre planned and unprovoked act of aggression, demanded an immediate return to diplomatic talks. The ministry also accused Washington and Tel Aviv of falsely hyping threats surrounding Iran's nuclear program to pursue regime change and warned the Middle east was in danger of plunging into a cycle of uncontrolled escalation. The Russian response was in line with its objections to recent US Military pressure against Kremlin allies in Venezuela, Cuba and elsewhere in the Middle East. Yet Moscow has thus far stepped back from taking more forceful actions, with the vast majority of its military resources devoted to the war in Ukraine. Charles Maynes, NPR News, Moscow.