Mourning and celebration after the death of Iran's Supreme Leader

France 24 · Mar 1, 2026 · Collected from RSS

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The world greeted with jubilation, anger or trepidation the news Sunday that Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been killed in the US-Israeli strikes on the Islamic republic one day earlier.

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