Jammu/Srinagar, March 4 -- Chief minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday condemned the killing of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family in the joint attack by US-Israel forces and called their action a 'blatant' violation of international laws.

Responding to media queries here, the CM also appealed to the people of Jammu and Kashmir to exercise restraint and control their anger as elements inimical to peace may sabotage the situation.

"The people of Iran must be the ones to decide their own leadership, without external interference. They have the right to decide the government of their choice, the way people of the US, Israel and India do, but to change the government by using firepower and bombarding a country, the inte...