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US President Donald Trump said Saturday that he believes reports that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed are true.
"We feel that that is a correct story," he was quoted as saying by NBC News, without directly confirming the news.
Various media reported that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed and his body has been found. Neither Iran nor the United States have confirmed.
The conflict across the Middle East began on Saturday morning, when the United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes across Iran.
In retaliation for the US-Israel joint strikes, Iran initially targeted US military assets in all countries across the Gulf region except Oman. By Saturday evening, reports emerged that Tehran's drones had hit residential areas of Dubai and Bahrain.
In a video on social media, US President Donald Trump indicated the US was striking for reasons far beyond the nuclear programme, listing grievances stretching back to the beginning of the Islamic Republic in 1979.
Several countries in the region closed their airspace, forcing flight cancellations and some planes en route to cities like Tel Aviv and Dubai were diverted or forced to return to where they took off from.
