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.

The supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has been killed in a joint US-Israeli air strikes on Saturday.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, dies at 86 amid escalating Israel-Iran conflict, raising concerns of regional instability.