More strikes aimed at Iran after US, Israeli assault kills supreme leader

Israel said it launched another wave of strikes on Iran on Sunday, as Iranians grappled with uncertainty after the killing of their supreme leader in U.S. and Israeli attacks that threaten to destabilize the wider Middle East.



Hours after both nations said an air strike killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the most ambitious series of attacks on Iran in decades, the country's state media confirmed the 86-year-old leader's death on Saturday.



U.S. President Donald Trump said the air strikes aimed to end a decades-long threat from Iran and ensure it could not develop a nuclear weapon, as he sought to justify a risky gambit that seemed to contradict his professed opposition to American involvement in complex overseas conflicts.



Experts said that while the deaths of Khamenei and other Iranian leaders would deal the country a major blow, it would not necessarily spell the end of Iran's entrenched clerical rule or the Revolutionary Guards' sway over the population.



Israel's military said it targeted Iran's ballistic missile and air defense systems with strikes on Sunday morning.



Iran's armed forces would soon retaliate again with their biggest offensive against U.S. bases and Israel, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps vowed in a statement on Sunday.