World leaders react cautiously to US and Israeli strikes and death of Iran leader Ali Khamenei

World leaders have been responding cautiously amid U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, reports of its supreme leader's death ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's dictator, killed by air strike at 86

At first dismissed as weak and indecisive, Khamenei seemed an unlikely choice for supreme leader after the death of the ...

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who ruled Iran with iron fist, dies at 86

The 36-year rule of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei built Iran into a powerful anti-U.S. force, while using an iron fist to crush ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who led the Islamic Republic since 1989, is dead at 86

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has died at 86 after a reported joint US-Israel strike, ending decades of hard-line clerical rule marked by nuclear standoffs, regional proxy conflicts, ...
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Iran's Ali Khamenei, who based iron rule on fiery hostility to US and Israel, dies at 86

A woman holds on to a picture of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the Enghelab Square, after he was killed in Israeli and US strikes on Saturday, in Tehran, Iran, March 1, 2026.