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Exit Ayatollah, re-enter Pahlavi Dynasty?

A mourner holds a picture of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei at a memorial vigil, a day after his assassination in joint US and Israeli strikes, in Tehran on March 1, 2026. [AFP]

“He is gone,” a senior Israeli Embassy official in Nairobi told The Standard on Sunday night, confirming the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei.

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