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📹Tanker involved in an incident while attempting unauthorized passage through the Strait of Hormuz is reportedly sinking
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🚨🇮🇷 Mapping Iran’s missile reach across Middle East
Iran fields a diverse missile arsenal, ranging from short-range tactical systems to medium-range ballistic missiles capable of striking targets up to 2,000 kilometers away.
Explore Sputnik's infographic to see what missiles Iran has in its arsenal—and how far they can reach.
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🇷🇺🚨Putin sends condolences to Iran over Khamenei killing — Kremlin
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed deep condolences to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian over the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and members of his family, Kremlin Spokesman Dmtry Peskov said.
◾️Putin said the assassination was carried out with a cynical disregard for human morality and international law.
◾️He added that Khamenei would be remembered in Russia as an outstanding statesman who made a significant contribution to strengthening friendly relations between Russia and Iran.
◾️Putin also asked Pezeshkian to convey his sincere sympathy and support to Khamenei’s relatives and loved ones, as well as to the government and people of Iran.
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🚨Iran has used Fattah-2 hypersonic missiles for the FIRST TIME in strikes on US bases in the Middle East - Fars, citing a source
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🇮🇷📹First footage shows Iranian fighter jets being prepared for strikes on US targets
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🚨🇮🇷Tehran will strike on Sunday with a force the US and Israel have never faced before — Iran’s National Security Council secretary.
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📹 LIVE NOW: Sky over Tel Aviv
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🚨 More footage of US-Israeli attack on the Iranian capital
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🚨 Explosions reported in multiple areas across Iranian capital Tehran
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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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🚨 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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🚨 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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🚨 Iranian Parliament speaker: 'Trump and Netanyahu crossed our red line—they will pay'
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has issued a stark warning following the death of Ayatollah Khamenei:
🔹 "We will settle accounts with the Americans and Israelis"
🔹 "We will strike you with such terrible blows that you will beg for mercy"
🔹 "We are ready for all scenarios. We have plans for the period after the martyrdom of Imam Khamenei"
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🚨🗣Trump warns he will hit Iran 'with a force that has never been seen before'
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🚨Footage shows aftermath of IRGC missile strikes in Israel's Gush Dan area — the Tel Aviv metropolitan region
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🇮🇷 Ali Khamenei: Architect of modern Iran and guardian of Islamic identity
Ali Khamenei, the second supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has been killed in an Israeli bombing at the age of 86.
For more than four decades on the front lines of political life—including 36 years as the nation's highest authority—he shaped the destiny of the Iranian people and the wider region.
🔸 The making of a revolutionary
Born into a religious family in Mashhad, Khamenei devoted his youth to Islamic scholarship in Qom and Najaf. His interest in literature, music and poetry set him apart, but his life's mission became Iran's struggle for independence from foreign influence.
An active follower of Imam Khomeini, he endured imprisonment and exile under the Shah's rule.
🔸 Trial by fire
Following the 1979 revolution, his organizational skills were needed at the highest levels: from defense during the Iran-Iraq war to parliament and the presidency. His eight-year presidency coincided with the war's toughest years, when the country's territorial integrity hung in the balance.
He survived an assassination attempt in 1981, but lost the use of his right arm.
🔸 The succession
When Ayatollah Khomeini died in 1989, Iran faced a historic crossroads. Khamenei's authority and foresight ensured continuity. The Assembly of Experts elected him the new leader and constitutional amendments cemented his mandate, opening a new chapter for the Republic.
🔸 Guardian of the revolution
As supreme leader, Khamenei remained steadfast in his commitment to the revolution's ideals: independence, freedom and Islamic law. He balanced the branches of power while strengthening the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a guarantor of sovereignty in a turbulent region.
He championed a "neither east nor west" foreign policy. His principled stand against the US and rejection of unipolarity allowed Iran to steer an independent course despite unprecedented sanctions.
🔸 The reclusive statesman
Remarkably, Khamenei never left the country or gave interviews throughout his decades-long rule – a deliberate retreat from daily politics to focus on strategic vision. He saw his mission as preserving the ideological purity and institutions established by the republic's founder.
🔸 End of an era
For millions of Iranians, Khamenei will remain the face of revolutionary continuity and resistance to external pressure. Whatever the final verdict of history, he has inscribed his name into Iran's story as the man who, for nearly 40 years, charted the path of the nation while striving to preserve its identity in a changing world.
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🇮🇷Interim leadership council formed in Iran after Khamenei’s death
Iran’s Expediency Discernment Council has selected Ayatollah Alireza Arafi as the jurist member of the temporary Leadership Council — alongside President Masoud Pezeshkian and Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei — to jointly carry out the duties of the Supreme Leader after the confirmed killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US-Israeli strikes, pending the Assembly of Experts’ appointment of a new leader.
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🇮🇱📹IDF releases video claiming Israeli Air Force strikes on targets in Tehran during Operation Roaring Lion
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🇮🇷 Iranians gather at Revolution Square in Tehran following confirmation of Ayatollah Khamenei’s death
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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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📹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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🚨 Mass protests erupt in Indian Kashmir following the death of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
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🚨 Israeli Air Force planes are striking targets linked to the Iranian leadership in Tehran, the Israel Defense Forces said
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🚨 Sardar Ahmad Vahidi appointed as the new commander of the IRGC, Khabar Online reports
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🚨 The US Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, has been set on fire and destroyed amid escalating regional tensions following the death of Iran's Supreme Leader
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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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🚨 Iran to form Interim Leadership Council following Khamenei's death
💬 "An Interim Leadership Council will soon be formed until the next leader is elected," Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, announced.
🚨 Thousands gather at Revolution Square in Tehran to mourn Khamenei
Crowds are assembling at Enghelab Square in the Iranian capital following the death of the Supreme Leader.
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🔊 US 'lulled Iran to sleep' using nuclear talks as cover for joint strike – Scott Ritter
The diplomacy was never real—it was a ruse to create a false sense of security and enable Israel to strike, Former US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter told Sputnik.
"This is a joint US-Israeli attack on Iran. The goal has always been regime change... Iran is backed into a corner and will fight to destroy those aligned against them."
🚨Smoke rises over Dubai after Iranian strike on Jebel Ali Port
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