India, March 2 -- Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was targeted in a "precise, large-scale operation," and the elimination of the leader of the "terror axis" has brought to an end a "decades-long chapter," the IDF said on Sunday. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) formally announced that it killed Khamenei in an airstrike in Tehran on Saturday and shared details of the attack.

Israel and the US launched joint strikes on Iran early on Saturday, including attacks on "dozens of military targets" carried out as part of a "wide, coordinated, and joint offensive" against the (Iranian) regime aimed at eliminating existential threats to the State of Israel over time.

On Sunday, the Israeli army said in a statement: "Ali Khamenei was t...