Iranian Australian community criticises mosques who mourned Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death

Iranian Australians celebrate the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Sydney. Nos Hosseini from the Iranian Women’s Association said it was concerning that there were small parts of the community who were mourning the death of a person responsible for ‘brutality unleashed across the world’. Photograph: Richard Milnes/Shutterstock

Iranian Australia community members have expressed distress after a small number of mosques and Islamic centres in Melbourne and Sydney invited members to mourn the death of Iran’s supreme leader.

Iranian state media on Sunday confirmed the death of the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 86, after Israel and the US launched strikes on the country, plunging the Middle East into a volatile conflict.