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Who was Ayatollah Ali Khamenei? Iran's supreme leader killed in US-Israel strike

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been killed, US President Donald Trump announced early Sunday. Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there were “many signs” that the 86-year-old leader was no longer alive, but stopped short of a definitive announcement.

The Times of India

Iran’s exiled crown prince is touting himself as a future leader. Is this what’s best for the country?

As Iranian and US diplomats meet in Geneva for crucial negotiations to avoid a potential war, opposition groups in exile are sniffing an opportunity.

The Conversation

Nobody knows what would follow regime change in Iran – but what happened in 1979 offers some pointers

The radical clerics benefited then – but who would prevail this time, asks the Guardian’s international security correspondent Jason Burke

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‘Very masculinist’: how Iran unrest felt different to 2022’s hijab protests

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Grave of thousands of Iranian revolution victims turned into car park

Iran has been accused of trying to conceal potential evidence of crimes

The Independent UK

King of Kings by Scott Anderson review – how the last shah of Iran sealed his own fate

A clear-eyed account of a difficult, complex man and his self-inflicted fall from grace

The Guardian - UK

Iran emerged weakened and vulnerable after war with Israel − and that could mean trouble for country’s ethnic minorities

The 12-day confrontation between Iran and Israel in June 2025 may not have escalated into a full-scale regional war, but it marks a potentially critical turning point in Iran’s internal political landscape.

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Iran’s history has been blighted by interference from foreign powers

Israel’s recent surprise attack on Iran was ostensibly aimed at neutralising Iran’s nuclear programme, but it didn’t just damage nuclear installations. It killed scientists, engineers and senior military personnel.

The Conversation

History of US-Iran relations: From the 1953 regime change to Trump strikes

Iran remains the US’s adversary in the Middle East since the 1979 Islamic revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

Al Jazeera

Who is Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?

Ali Khamenei was born in Mashhad, Iran, in 1939, as the second son of a local religious leader, Javad Khamenei, and he grew up in relative poverty.

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The US sponsored Iran’s 1953 regime change: Is Trump planning a repeat?

A quarter century before the 1979 revolution, the US and UK helped depose democratically elected Iranian PM Mossadegh.

Al Jazeera

Iran’s long history of revolution, defiance and outside interference – and why its future is so uncertain

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has gone beyond his initial aim of destroying Iran’s ability to produce nuclear weapons. He has called on the Iranian people to rise up against their dictatorial Islamic regime and ostensibly transform Iran along the lines of Israeli interests.

The Conversation

Regime change wouldn’t likely bring democracy to Iran. A more threatening force could fill the vacuum

The timing and targets of Israel’s attacks on Iran tell us that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s short-term goal is to damage Iran’s nuclear facilities in order to severely diminish its weapons program.

The Conversation

Ali Khamenei: ruthless defender of Iran’s revolution with few good options left

The Iranian supreme leader is backed into a corner, a situation he has spent his life doing his best to avoid

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35 years after The Satanic Verses controversy, newly unearthed letters reveal some uncomfortable truths

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is famous for his forthright statements to other world leaders. In March 1989, Mahathir wrote a letter to then UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that was blunt even by his standards. Unlike a lot of his angry letters, this one wasn’t published.

The Independent UK

Hassan Nasrallah, longtime leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, is killed by his archenemy Israel

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who transformed the Lebanese militant group into a potent paramilitary and political force in the Middle East was killed in an Israeli airstrike

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Iran’s new reformist president offers hope to the west and cover for the conservative establishment

Good news for democracy in Iran – words which in recent times, particularly in western news reports, are rarely seen in the same sentence. But the election of Masoud Pezeshkian as president of Iran must be seen as a positive development.

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How Iran selects its supreme leader − a political scientist and Iran expert explains

The sudden death of President Ebrahim Raisi is unlikely to drastically alter Iran’s foreign and domestic policies, but it has left a power vacuum.

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Ebrahim Raisi obituary

Ruthless prosecutor linked to thousands of executions who rose through the theocratic ranks to become the president of Iran

The Conversation

What could President Raisi’s death mean for stability in Iran and beyond? Expert Q&A

A helicopter carrying Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and other officials crashed in the mountainous north-west reaches of Iran on Sunday May 19, sparking a rescue operation in thick fog and driving rain. On Monday, search and rescue teams reached the crash site and “found no signs…

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Who is Mohammad Mokhber, Iran’s interim president?

Mokhber led the Iranian supreme leader’s multibillion-dollar charitable conglomerate for 14 years.

The Independent UK

Salman Rushdie makes surprise public appearance for first-ever ‘Lifetime Disturbing the Peace Award’

‘I don’t feel at all mysterious. But it made life a little simple,’ Rushdie says about his mystery appearance

The Independent UK

Author Salman Rushdie calls for defense of freedom of expression as he receives German prize

Author Salman Rushdie called for the unconditional defense of freedom of expression as he received a prestigious German prize

The Independent UK

Salman Rushdie announces memoir, Knife, about stabbing that left him blind in one eye

Author was giving a public lecture at New York’s Chautauqua Institute last year when a man rushed the stage and stabbed him repeatedly

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Sir Salman Rushdie and Prima Facie among winners of South Bank Sky Arts Awards

The awards celebrate a range of artistic genres including dance, theatre, music, TV and film.

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