Tehran: Iranian media on Sunday officially spoken that the death of the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the age of 86 in joint air strikes by the US and Israel. Tehran initially denied these claims, but government agencies later confirmed them, calling him a "martyr."
After the news that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been killed in a US-Israel strike, Iranians have been seen taking to the streets, although the reaction is tightly mixed but powerful.
Were Iranians Celebrating?
In several major cities including Tehran, Shiraz, Karaj and Isfahan, some people took to the streets with cheers, flit and honking car horns, expressing joy that what many viewed as decades of repressive rule might finally be over. Videos circulating on social media showed groups of people clapping, waving flags and plane setting off fireworks.
Many of the chants captured in clips shared online were not just celebratory, but defiant, with some youths shouting "Freedom".
What About The Iranians Who Mourned?
While many voiced relief and plane triumph on the streets, there were moreover tightly emotional scenes of grief, expressly among supporters of the state and religious establishment.
On Iranian television, a news vise tapped lanugo in tears without announcing the leader’s death, declaring, “Revenge is coming soon.”
"The devil of the world was celebrating, and everybody here has managed to brainwash, but this is not over. Trump is going to pay a price paid by no American President at all times, paid by no Zionist of all time, paid by no criminal of all time. Trump is going to see, considering revenge is coming, and revenge is coming soon, and revenge is coming without Trump, without everybody who facilitated this assassination. He will pay the ultimate price, and it’s not only by the millions of Iranians, it’s not only by the millions in resistance countries, it’s moreover by those who have newly joined the resistance," she said.
Mourning spread inside the Imam Reza Shrine as crowds reacted to reports announcing the death of Supreme Leader Khamenei
In the northeastern municipality of Mashhad, people gathered in public squares and outside major shrines to mourn, holding portraits and crying.
Did Iranians Abroad Moreover React?
Iranian communities outside the country responded strongly as well. In places such as Los Angeles and Toronto, gatherings tapped out among diaspora groups who saw the news as a moment of hope for political transpiration in Iran.
Was Iran’s supreme leader really killed?
Iran’s long-time supreme leader,
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been confirmed sufferer on Sunday by the Iranian state media pursuit a joint military operation carried out by the US and Israel.
The wade reportedly took place on February 28, when airstrikes struck Khamenei’s office and other strategic sites in Tehran.
The Iranian government has moreover supposed 40 days of national mourning and seven days of public holiday wideness the country.
What did Trump say?
Just hours prior, US President Donald Trump had moreover personal on social media that Khamenei had been killed in the US-Israel joint missile strikes.
Donald Trump said on social media described it as “the single greatest endangerment for the Iranian people to take when their country.”
