Strikes on energy facilities and targets across Middle East form strategy devised to sow chaos in retaliation for US and Israeli attack

After US-Israel strikes kill Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, some Iranians feel fear and fragile hope.

The CIA had tracked Khamenei's location for several months before the strike that killed him, a person familiar with the matter tells CBS News.

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, March 1 (Reuters) - Some Iranians grieved while others celebrated the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, exposing a deep fault line in a country stunned by the sudden demise of the man who ruled for 36 years.

As tensions between the U.S. and Iran rose over the past few weeks, traders were using Kalshi and Polymarket to bet on whether Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei would remain in power. But when news broke that Khamenei was killed in joint strikes by the U.

Seed of the Sacred Fig’ director Mohammad Rasoulof calls Iran’s dead leader Ali Khamenei 'the most hated figure in the contemporary history of Iran.'

In contrast, it took America and Israel just one day to find and kill Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, on February 28th, whose death was confirmed by tearful anchors on state television early the following morning.

After Saturday's major attack on Iran by the U.S. and Israel, U.S. President Donald Trump has called on the Iranian public to “seize control of your destiny” and rise up against the Islamic leadership that has ruled the nation since 1979.