Ali Khamenei

Iran’s Tehran-Mashhad Railway Suspended After US Strikes: State TV

The train service between Tehran and Mashhad has been suspended after US strikes, state TV reported, hours before late supreme leader Ali Khamenei was due to be buried in the eastern Iranian holy city.

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Iran Delays Ali Khamenei Funeral: Tehran Mayor

The mayor of Tehran said Thursday that the state funeral of late supreme leader Ali Khamenei, killed by US-Israeli strikes on the first day of the Middle East war, would be postponed until the end of June or early July.

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Lebanon Says 13 Killed in Israeli Strikes

Lebanon's health ministry said 13 people were killed on Friday in Israeli strikes in the south, including in a town where Israel's army had issued an evacuation order despite a ceasefire.

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Israel Defense Minister Warns Hezbollah Chief ‘Playing With Fire’

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz warned Monday that Hezbollah's defiance would bring catastrophic consequences for Lebanon after the militant group's leader rejected proposed direct talks between the two countries.

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Trump Says Iran Has Undergone ‘Regime Change’

US President Donald Trump said Sunday that the US-Israel war had achieved regime change in Iran, even as he assured that he would "make a deal" with the Iranians.

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Israel Spent Years Hacking Tehran Traffic Cameras to Track Khamenei Before Strike: Report

Israel has reportedly spent years monitoring the movements of Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei through Tehran’s traffic camera network.

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Iran Leader Khamenei Killed in Massive US and Israeli Attack

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader since 1989 and sworn enemy of the West, was killed in the opening salvo of a massive US and Israeli attack, sparking a new wave of retaliatory missile strikes from Tehran on Sunday.

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Iran’s Khamenei Says Authorities ‘Must Break the Back of the Seditionists’

Iran said authorities "must break the back of the seditionists" and blamed Trump for "casualties" after a crackdown on a protest wave against the country's clerical authorities.

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Khamenei Tells Trump to ‘Keep Dreaming’ Over Claims of Destroying Iran Nuclear Sites

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday rebuffed claims by US President Donald Trump that the Islamic republic's nuclear sites had been destroyed by US strikes in June.

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Note to Trump and Netanyahu: Iran’s Theocracy Is Unlikely to Collapse

Despite widespread discontent in Iran, the regime is unlikely to fall through revolution or external provocation, and pursuing such a strategy could trigger catastrophic consequence.

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