India, March 2 -- Opposition parties on Sunday condemned the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US-Israel strikes and questioned the Centre's "silence", with the Congress saying that it shows the Modi Government's "abdication of moral leadership".

Opposition leaders also criticised the Centre's foreign policy and said the Government's response to the war unleashed on "friend" Iran has been a "betrayal" of India's values, principles and interests.

Slamming the killing of Khamenei, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said the targeted assassination of the leadership of a sovereign nation by the "so-called leaders of the democratic world" and the killing of multitudes of innocent people is "despicable" and deserve...