STORY: Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed on Saturday (March 1), state media confirmed, after the United States and Israel launched the most ambitious attack on Iranian targets in decades.

Iranian state media announced Khamenei's death early on Sunday. A senior Israeli official told Reuters earlier that the Iranian leader's body had been found after a strike and U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States worked closely with Israel to target the man who led Iran since 1989.

Iran has called the strikes unprovoked and illegal and responded with missiles fired at Israel and at least seven other countries, including Gulf states that host U.S. bases.

Trump, making the biggest foreign-policy gamble of his presidency after campaigning for reelection as a "peace president," said the strikes were aimed at ending a decades-long threat from Iran and ensuring it could not develop a nuclear weapon.

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1. NEWLY APPOINTED IRANIAN PRESIDENT ALI KHAMENEI KISSING HAND OF IRANIAN SUPREME LEADER AYATOLLAH RUHOLLAH KHOMEINI

2. KHAMENEI ON BALCONY ADDRESSING FRIDAY PRAYERS, KHOMEINI'S SON AHMAD KHOMEINI STANDING NEXT TO HIM

Iran's new President is sworn into office by the parliament on October 13, 1981. Ali Khamenei was elected by a landslide majority on October 2. He is Iran's third president in less than four months. In his inaugural address, he vowed to defend Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic revolution against "Deviance, liberalism and American influenced left-wingers".

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3. PRAYERS BEING READ / MEMBERS SEATED

4. KHAMENEI TAKING OATH WITH AYATOLLAH ARDABILI

Khamenei visited frontline of the war between Iran and Iraq that lasted eight years.

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5. KHAMENEI VISITING FRONT LINE DURING CEASEFIRE IN EIGHT-YEAR WAR WITH IRAQ

6. KHAMENEI TALKING TO TROOPS

Khomeini dies. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed Supreme Leader.

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7. MOURNERS CARRYING AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI'S CASKET

8. KHAMENEI GRIEVING

9. KHAMENEI AND OTHER SENIOR CLERICS PRAYING OVER KHOMEINI'S BODY

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says the country has no interest in nuclear weapons but will keep pursuing nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

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10. LEFT TO RIGHT: JUDICIARY CHIEF AYATOLLAH SADEQ LARIJANI, THEN IRANIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, KHAMENEI, FORMER PRESIDENT AKBAR HASHEMI RAFSANJANI, PARLIAMENT SPEAKER ALI LARIJANI STANDING LISTENING TO ANTHEM DURING THE 16TH SUMMIT OF THE NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT

11. KHAMENEI

12. (SOUNDBITE) (Farsi) IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER, AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI, ADDRESSING SUMMIT SAYING (SOUNDBITE BEGINS AND CONTINUES OVER SEVERAL SHOTS OF DELEGATES LISTENING):

"I repeat that the Islamic Republic of Iran is not developing capabilities for nuclear weapons, but also, (Iran) will not overlook the rights of its people and their need for access to peaceful nuclear energy."

Iran's top authority Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei undergoes prostate surgery.

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13. KHAMENEI LYING IN HOSPITAL BED FOLLOWING PROSTATE SURGERY, THEN PRESIDENT HASSAN ROUHANI LEANING OVER AND KISSING KHAMENEI

Ali Khamenei says the United States cannot be trusted, in a speech during a live state TV broadcast at a gathering to commemorate the anniversary of the death of the revolution's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in 1989.

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14. (SOUNDBITE) (Farsi) IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER, AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI, SAYING: (SOUNDBITE OVERLAID WITH MULTIPLE SHOTS OF AUDIENCE/SHRINE/ SITTING AUDIENCE)

"The Americans gave promises from their side. The Islamic Republic (of Iran) carried out what it had promised to do, but the other party (the Americans) have broken promises and are stalling on carrying out their side of the deal."

A U.S. drone strike in Iraq in early January 2020, killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, leader of the Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force. Washington blamed Soleimani for masterminding attacks by Iran-aligned militias on U.S. forces in the region. The Pentagon says Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack Americans in Iraq and the Middle East.

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15. KHAMENEI SPEAKING WITH SOLEIMANI'S FAMILY

16. KHAMENEI NEXT TO PICTURE OF SOLEIMANI

Khamenei receives his second dose of a homegrown COVID-19 vaccine in July of 2021 state television reported, amid a fifth wave of the pandemic. His first dose was administered in June. Iran was one of the first countries hit hard by COVID.

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17. VARIOUS OF KHAMENEI RECEIVING COVID-19 VACCINE

Iranian-Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, 22, dies on September 16, 2022, after falling into a coma following her arrest for "unsuitable attire" in Tehran earlier in the week, putting a spotlight on women's rights in Iran. She was in the custody of morality police enforcing strict hijab rules.

Police rejected social media suspicions that she was beaten, saying she fell ill as she waited with other detained women.

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18. STILL IMAGE OF MAHSA AMINI, WHO DIED IN THE CUSTODY OF IRAN'S MORALITY POLICE

Protests break out across Iran, with activists warning of worse to come as the state deploys facial recognition technology to control its citizens.

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19. PEOPLE THROWING PROJECTILES / DEBRIS BURNING IN STREET

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave his full backing to security forces confronting protests ignited by Amini's death, on October 3, in comments more than two weeks since she died.

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20. (SOUNDBITE) (Farsi) IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER, AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI, SAYING (SOUNDBITE CONTINUES OVER SHOTS OF KHAMENEI SPEAKING FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES):

"I say clearly that these riots and insecurities were designed by America and the usurping and fake Zionist regime."

Iran's Khamenei said in June 2023 that Iran had 'no problem' with a nuclear deal with West.

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21. AUDIENCE IN HALL TO LISTEN TO KHAMENEI

22. (SOUNDBITE) (Farsi) IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER, AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI, SAYING: (INCLUDES MULTIPLE ANGLES)

"We do not want to go towards nuclear weapons, because of our Islamic values. Otherwise they (the West) wouldn't be able to stop us if we had chosen to do so."

Khamenei said on October 10, 2023, that Tehran had not been involved in the Hamas attack on Israel three days before which was followed by the Israeli onslaught on Gaza to eliminate Hamas. Iran also said that those who claimed otherwise "underestimate the Palestinian government". He also hailed what he called Israel's "irreparable" military and intelligence defeat.

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23. TOP SHOT OF GRADUATION CEREMONY FOR STUDENTS OF MILITARY ACADEMY FOR OFFICERS IN THE STREET

24. (SOUNDBITE) (Farsi) IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER, AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI, SAYING: (SOUNDBITE CONTINUES OVER SHOT OF SOLDIERS LISTENING)

"Those who claim non-Palestinians are behind what Palestinians do, don't know the Palestinian nation."

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a close ally, in Tehran to offer condolences for the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in May 2024, Iran's Student News Network (SNN) reported.

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25. VARIOUS OF THEN SYRIAN PRESIDENT BASHAR AL-ASSAD MEETING IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI

Khamenei lead prayers at the funeral of assassinated Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in August 2024.

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26. KHAMENEI PRAYING IN FRONT OF HAMAS LEADER, ISMAIL HANIYEH'S COFFIN

Iran launched a barrage of missiles against Israel in October 2024, its biggest ever attack on Israel, in what it said was retaliation for Israeli strikes that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and the assassination of Hamas' chief Ismail Haniyeh.

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27. MISSILES SEEN OVER HEBRON LANDING IN ISRAEL ON THE HORIZON / VARIOUS OF EXPLOSIONS ON HORIZON AND IN AIR

Khamenei tells a large crowd during Friday prayer sermons following Iran's strikes on Israel that his country will not "procrastinate nor act hastily to carry out its duty" in confronting Israel, adding that the missile attack on Israel was "legal and legitimate."

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28. (SOUNDBITE) (Farsi) SUPREME LEADER OF IRAN, AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI, SAYING (STARTS OVER SHOT OF AUDIENCE LISTENING):

"The brilliant action of our armed forces (in the attack on Israel) few nights ago was completely legal and legitimate."

29. CROWDS CHANTING

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei met with acting Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya and two other leaders of the Palestinian group in Tehran, Iranian state TV reported in February 2025.

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30. IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI GREETING HEAD OF POLITICAL COUNCIL OF HAMAS, MOHAMMED ISMAIL DARWISH, AND SENIOR OFFICIALS OF HAMAS IN TEHRAN

31. KHAMENEI AND COUNCIL OF HAMAS SEATED

On February 12, 2025, Khamenei visited a military exhibition and suggested that Iran should further develop its military, including its missiles, if the previously defined limits are becoming too restrictive.

Khamenei's remarks come after U.S. President Donald Trump made threats of using force against Tehran if it refused to negotiate its nuclear programme.

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32. KHAMENEI GREETED BY MILITARY PERSONNEL AT AN EXHIBITION SHOWCASING THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN IRAN'S DEFENCE SECTOR

33. VARIOUS OF KHAMENEI LOOKING AT MILITARY EQUIPMENT, LISTENING TO MILITARY PERSONNEL EXPLAIN

In early March 2025, Trump said he had sent the letter to Khamenei proposing nuclear talks, but also warned that "there are two ways Iran can be handled: militarily, or you make a deal."

The letter was handed over to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi by Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to the president of the United Arab Emirates.

While Araqchi and Gargash were meeting, Khamenei told a group of university students that Trump's offer for talks was "a deception," state media reported.

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34. CROWD

35. (SOUNDBITE) (Farsi) IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER, AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI, SAYING:

(SOUNDBITE CONTINUES OVER WIDE SHOT OF MEETING)

"In negotiations, one must be certain that the other party will honour their commitments. When we know they won’t follow through, what is the point of negotiating? Therefore, the invitation to negotiate and the expression of willingness to do so is merely a deception of public opinion."

Saudi Arabia's defence minister delivered a blunt message to Iranian officials in Tehran in April 2025: take President Donald Trump's offer to negotiate a nuclear agreement seriously because it presents a way to avoid the risk of war with Israel. Alarmed at the prospect of further instability in the region, Saudi Arabia's 89-year-old King Salman bin Abdulaziz dispatched his son, Prince Khalid bin Salman, with the warning destined for Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to two Gulf sources close to government circles and two Iranian officials.

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36. IRAN'S ARMED FORCES CHIEF MOHAMMAD BAGHERI AND SAUDI DEFENCE MINISTER PRINCE KHALID BIN SALMAN SITTING AND TALKING TO IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI

37. VARIOUS OF KHALID BIN SALMAN TALKING TO KHAMENEI

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on June 4, 2025, Tehran will not abandon its uranium enrichment, rejecting a key U.S. demand aimed at resolving a decades-long nuclear dispute, that he said was against the Islamic Republic’s interests.

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38. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE LISTENING TO IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER KHAMENEI'S SPEECH

39. (SOUNDBITE)(Farsi) IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER KHAMENEI, SAYING:

"If we have 100 nuclear power plants, but no enrichment, it won’t help us. Because nuclear power plants require fuel. If we can’t produce this nuclear fuel within the country, we’ll have to turn to America."

Iran state media showed burning and damaged buildings in Tehran early on June 13, 2025 as Israel said it had struck Iranian nuclear targets.

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40. SMOKE RISING FROM BUILDINGS, EYEWITNESS FILMING SAYING (Farsi): “This is Niavaran (Area in Tehran), We just heard explosions”

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41. BURNING BUILDING, EYEWITNESS FILMING SAYING (Farsi): “Time now is 03:37. This is Farahzad (Area in Tehran)”

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a statement on June 13 that Israel initiated a war and said it will not be allowed to do "hit and run" attacks without grave consequences.

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42. (SOUNDBITE) (Farsi) IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI SAYING:

"They started this and triggered a war. We will not allow them to walk away unscathed from the great crime they have committed."

Video obtained by Reuters show a projectile landing in Tel Aviv on June 14 as emergency sirens sounded to alert the population.

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43. PROJECTILE LANDING IN TEL AVIV AS SIRENS RING

Explosions were heard over Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as sirens sounded on the night of June 13, across Israel following what the country's military spokesman said was the firing of missiles from Iran.

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44. IRANIAN ROCKETS BEING INTERCEPTED BY ISRAEL'S AIR DEFENCE OVER TEL AVIV

U.S. President Donald Trump on June 17 demanded Iran's "unconditional surrender" amid mounting evidence showing the U.S. consideration of joining Israel's strikes against the country.

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45. SCREENSHOT OF POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE 'TRUTH SOCIAL' BY U.S. PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, READING (English):

"UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!"

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's demand for unconditional surrender on June 18.

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46. (SOUNDBITE) (Farsi) IRAN’S SUPREME LEADER KHAMENEI AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI, SAYING (STARTS AND ENDS ON CLOSE UP SHOT OF KHAMENEI):

"Surrender to what? The Iranian people do not surrender. We are not the aggressor and we will not accept any kind of aggression, and we will not submit to anyone's aggression;"

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attended a religious event on Saturday (July 5) according to a video carried by state television, after reports that he was in a "secure location" since the start of a 12-day air war with Israel in which top Iranian commanders and nuclear scientists were killed.

The video carried by state media showed dozens attending a ceremony to mark Ashura, the holiest day of the Shi'ite Muslim calendar, standing chanting as Khamenei entered a hall where many government functions are held.

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47. MEN CHANTING (Farsi): "LION, LION"

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on October 20 rejected an offer of renewed talks from U.S. President Donald Trump and denied his assertion that the United States has destroyed Iran's nuclear capabilities.

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48. (SOUNDBITE) (Farsi) IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER, AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI, SAYING:

"A deal whose outcome is predetermined through arrogance is no deal; Iran will not submit under the weight of imposition and pressure."

49. KHAMENEI ON STAGE

Eyewitness video released on December 31 showed protesters trying to access a building in Iran's southern Fars province as the country experienced a fourth day of demonstrations over the cost of living.

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50. PROTESTERS TRYING TO GET ACCESS TO BUILDING, FORCING GATE OPEN

Another eyewitness video released on January 1 showed an overturned car and several fires, as protesters chanted outside a police station in Azna, Lorestan Province.

Protesters were heard chanting "This is the last battle. Pahlavi will return" in reference to Reza Pahlavi, the former Shah of Iran. Pahlavi has lived in exile for more than four decades, ever since his father, the U.S.-backed shah, was overthrown in the 1979 Islamic Revolution that brought to power the clerical regime led by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

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51. CAR OVERTURNED, FIRES BURNING / PROTESTERS STANDING, CHANTING

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on January 3 vowed not to yield after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to come to the aid of protesters, as rights groups reported a sharp rise in arrests following days of unrest sparked by soaring inflation.

Speaking in a recorded appearance on television on Saturday, Khamenei said the Islamic Republic "will not yield to the enemy" and said rioters should be "put in their place."

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52. (SOUNDBITE) (Farsi) IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER, AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI, SAYING:

"We talk to the protesters, they should talk, the authorities should talk to the protesters, but there is no point in talking to the rioters. The rioters should be put in their place."

In video released on January 8, protesters tore an Iranian flag in half in northern Iran during nationwide demonstrations against economic hardship.

Reuters was able to confirm the location from buildings, trees, and the position of the flagpole, which matched with file and satellite imagery. The date when the video was filmed could not be confirmed. However, Iranian media reported that gatherings had taken place in Mashhad.

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53. PROTESTER RIPPING IRANIAN FLAG / MAN SAYING (Farsi): "Ripping apart the flag"

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54. (SOUNDBITE) (Farsi) IRANIAN SUPREME LEADER, ALI KHAMENEI, SAYING (BEGINS ON SHOT OF WOMEN LISTENING):

“The Islamic Republic was established with the blood of several hundred thousand honourable people, and it will not back down in the face of those who engage in destruction, nor will it tolerate mercenaries serving foreign powers.”

55. VARIOUS OF CROWD CHANTING

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56. VARIOUS OF ATTENDEES CHANTING

57. (SOUNDBITE) (Farsi) SUPREME LEADER OF IRAN, AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI, SAYING:

“The nature of the sedition, this sedition was American, it was clear. The Americans planned and acted. The aim of the Americans - and I am stating this clearly and unequivocally with forty-odd years of experience in the Islamic Republic - is to swallow Iran."

58. VARIOUS OF ATTENDEES CHANTING (Farsi): “Death to America, death to America, death to America.”