Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said during an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that it is not the United States’ job to pick Iran’s next leader and that the U.S. should not put boots on the ground after Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a series of pre-dawn strikes by U.S. … Read more
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! After radical students overthrew Iran’s shah in 1979 and took hostages in the U.S. embassy, the Middle Eastern nation became a strident and blood-soaked adversary of what its new Islamic fundamentalist dictatorship has long called the “Great Satan.” Since then, Tehran has sponsored terrorism around the globe, … Read more
Massive explosion strikes Iran’s capital as Israeli military says it is targeting ‘heart’ of city Source link
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KARACHI, Pakistan — At least six people were killed and about a dozen were wounded in violent clashes with police and paramilitary forces Sunday after hundreds of protesters stormed the U.S. Consulate in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, authorities said. The violence came hours after the United States and Israel attacked Iran and killed … Read more
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a major attack on Iran launched by Israel and the United States, throwing the future of the Islamic Republic into doubt and raising the risk of regional instability. Iranian state television and the state-run IRNA news agency announced the 86-year-old’s death early Sunday. U.S. President Donald … Read more
President Donald Trump on Saturday said that U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top leaders. “The people that make all the decisions, most of them are gone,” Trump told NBC News in a phone call, adding that “a large amount of leadership” in Iran was also killed, although he … Read more
Khamenei, 86, one of Iran’s longest-serving leaders and a lifelong foe of both the U.S. and Israel, took power in 1989. In the nearly 40 years that followed, the ideological hard-liner ruthlessly put down public demonstrations and silenced dissidents who challenged his rule. In recent months, Iran had been gripped by nationwide protests fueled by … Read more
For over 45 years, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been a brutal theocracy, ruled by an ayatollah who swept aside the freedoms of Iran pre-revolution and threatened peace with the largest stockpile of missiles in the Middle East. On Saturday, there was celebration in the streets after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death. Elizabeth … Read more