Iran launched strikes across the Gulf yesterday after vowing to avenge slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, defying a threat from President Donald Trump to strike with unprecedented force.

CIA intelligence indicating Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would attend a meeting of top Iranian officials helped guide strikes in a US and Israeli attack that killed Iran’s supreme leader, the New York Times reported yesterday.

Hundreds of ships drop anchor owing to growing risks

Americans wary of US casualties, higher fuel prices

Israel and Iran each launch fresh strikes

Global air travel remained heavily disrupted yesterday as continued air strikes kept major Middle Eastern airports, including Dubai, the world’s busiest international hub, closed in one of the sharpest aviation shocks in recent years.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, whose death was confirmed by state media yesterday, was a pillar of the country’s theocratic system since the Islamic revolution and saw off multiple crises over the decades, remaining defiant to the very end.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in strikes on Saturday by the US and Israel. The complexities of Iran’s ruling system, the ideological nature of its support base, and the power of its Revolutionary Guards make it hard to predict what might come next.

IRGC says it is carrying out a sixth wave of attacks in retaliation for the US and Israeli bombardment of Iran. More explosions heard in Dubai, Doha and Manama

Echoes of an empire in a time of fire

Not attacking our brothers in Persian Gulf, attacking American targets, he says

President Asif Ali Zardari also expressed profound sorrow

3 killed, 58 injured from the attacks, they say

The US-Israeli strike revives a familiar belief: that removing strongmen brings stability; record says otherwise

Called for a halt to miltary actions

Russian president says Khamenei 'will be remembered as an outstanding statesman'

Washington and Tel Aviv shift strike timing on Iran after new CIA intelligence prompts daylight attack

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the accident was "deeply distressing" and wished a speedy recovery to the survivors

Hundreds of pro-Iranian protesters had tried to storm the consulate following the US-Israel strikes on Iran.

He remained in power after overcoming 1999 student demonstrations, 2009 mass protests sparked by disputed presidential elections and 2019 demonstrations