France, March 1 -- Iranian state television and the state-run IRNA news agency announced the 86-year-old's death on Sunday morning.

United States president, Donald Trump, revealed on Saturday night that Khamenei's had died during a wave of Israeli and American bombings on Iran. Trump said the leader's death gave them their greatest chance to take back their country.

On Sunday, Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard threatened to launch what it called its most intense offensive operation on Israel as well as American bases in the region.

"The Iranian regime's indiscriminate attacks against its neighbours carry the risk of dragging the region into a broader war and we condemn this," Kaja Kallas, the EU's foreign affairs chief said on so...