During a brief address, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there were many signs that Iran’s Khamenei “is no longer.”
He did not explicitly confirm his death.
Netanyahu called on Iranian citizens to “flood the streets and finish the job.”
He said there were many signs suggesting Khamenei may have been killed as a result of Israeli-U.S. strikes.
“This morning we destroyed the compound of the tyrant Khamenei,” Netanyahu said in a video statement.
“There are many signs that this tyrant is no longer. This morning we eliminated senior officials in the ayatollahs’ regime, Revolutionary Guards commanders, senior figures in the nuclear program — and we will continue. In the next few days, we will hit thousands more targets of the terror regime,” Netanyahu said.
Meanwhile, a senior Israeli official told Reuters that Iran’s Supreme Leader was killed in Israeli and U.S. strikes.
Khamenei is dead, and his body has been found, a senior Israeli official told Reuters.
The United States and Israel carried out military strikes on Iran on Saturday, targeting its top leaders and plunging the Middle East into a conflict that President Donald Trump said would end a security threat to the U.S. and give Iranians a chance to topple their rulers.
The head of public relations at the Iranian Supreme Leader’s office accused the country’s enemies of “mental warfare” after Israeli reports that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been killed, Iranian state media reported.
A spokesperson for Iran’s Red Crescent Society has told Mehr news agency that US and Israeli attacks have hit 24 of Iran’s provinces, killing at least 201 people and wounding 747 people.
According to Aljazeera, the spokesperson said that more than 220 Red Crescent teams are present at the targeted sites, and rescue operations continue.
