Overview
- Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a joint US–Israel strike announced by President Donald Trump and later reported confirmed by Iranian media.
- Residents of Kintoor in Barabanki, a village that traces lineage to Ruhollah Khomeini’s forebears, held special prayers and Quran recitations, with processions and slogans reported by local media.
- Local tradition links Kintoor to Syed Ahmad Musavi ‘Hindi’, who left in the 19th century for Najaf and later Khomeyn, with surviving families pointing to ancestral homes, graveyards and documents.
- Iran is being run temporarily by a three-member council—President Masoud Pezeshkian, judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei and cleric Alireza Arafi—until the 88-member Assembly of Experts selects a new Supreme Leader.
- Reports also note the deaths of several senior Iranian military figures in Israeli strikes, while villagers in Kintoor say their response centers on prayers for peace and humanitarian concerns.