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Iran enters 40 days of mourning following death of Khamenei
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Iran has entered a 40-day mourning period following the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in strikes carried out by the United States and Israel on Saturday.

Several senior security officials and members of Khamenei’s family, including his daughter, son-in-law and grandson, were also killed. P

resident Masoud Pezeshkian condemned the killings and declared seven days of public holidays alongside the mourning period. A temporary leadership council comprising the president, the chief of the judiciary, and a jurist from the Guardian Council has assumed control of the country until a new supreme leader is elected.

Crowds gathered in the streets of Tehran and at religious shrines across the country following news of Khamenei’s death, with scenes of public mourning also reported in Mashhad. Reuters cited witnesses reporting celebrations at news of the death in parts of Tehran, Karaj and Isfahan.

Protests were held in neighbouring Iraq, which declared three days of mourning, and in the Pakistani city of Karachi, where the US consulate was targeted. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has pledged revenge and claimed strikes on US military bases and Israeli facilities across the region. US President Donald Trump warned Iran on Sunday that any further retaliation would be met with overwhelming force.

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  1. You’re at war Stump. Telling the nation you attacked without provocation not to attack you back, is sheer hubris.

    In any case RIP. The Iranian leader did not deserve this and they killed his family too. The USA and Israel are run by sick, sick people.

    • I don’t have a horse in this race but you need to do a little quite basic research. The Jews are NOT semetic, they are NOT Hebrew ie descendants of Abraham. They are Japhetic imposters at best and quite possibly nephilim at worst. It’s not a difficult research.

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