Iran’s defence minister and the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) are among those killed in the US and Israel’s attack. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has been killed along with senior figures in the country’s leadership in strikes on Saturday carried out by the US and Israel. Early on Sunday, the Iranian state-run news agency IRNA confirmed 86-year-old Khamenei’s death. The supreme leader’s daughter, son-in-law, and grandson were also killed in the US and Israel’s coordinated attack on Iran. Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said Khamenei’s killing is an “open declaration of war against Muslims”, particularly Shia practitioners. “This tragic event is the greatest trial facing the Islamic world today,” Pezeshkian said in a written messa...