LONDON: Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, was killed on Saturday along with much of the Iranian regime’s senior civilian and military leadership. But, thanks to Iran’s “mosaic” leadership structure, the regime itself is far from dead. When Iran’s first supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, died of natural causes in 1989, his successor, Khamenei, took office the very next day. Now Khamenei is dead, killed along with dozens of members of his family and other senior Iranian leaders in a series of US and Israeli attacks on targets across Tehran.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Saturday that it would defend its homeland and the Revolutionary Guard launched counterattacks

Iranian state television confirmed early Sunday that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been killed, marking the most consequential political shift in Iran