Ayatollah Khamenei's Murder Met with Fury and Promise in Iran

For the first time in 37 years, the sun rose on a leaderless Tehran, its streets unusually hushed as Iranians awoke to the news that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been killed in unexpected, joint U.S.-Israeli airstrikes.

In the capital, the mood was suspended between grief and disbelief. Black-clad mourners wept for Khamenei, beating their chests and clutching portraits of the man who ruled Iran for nearly four decades. Others, beyond Tehran and across social media, celebrated his death, dancing in the streets.

Questions now hang over who will succeed the Middle East’s longest-serving head of state, and what comes next for a nation already battered by war abroad and dissent at home.

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