Strikes in the Middle East continued on Sunday, with Israel saying it had launched a fresh wave of attacks in “the heart of Tehran” and Iran mounting attacks across the Persian Gulf as the regime pledged to avenge the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran’s supreme leader, who’d been a vocal opponent of Israel and the West since coming to power in 1989, was killed in U.S.-Israeli attacks Saturday along with other top Iranian leaders. Social media showed scenes of both mourning and celebration in Iran, where the government has declared 40 days of mourning and the elimination of top leaders has thrown succession plans into question. Iranian retaliatory attacks included for the first time a strike against Oman, which had served as a mediator in discussions between the Washington and Tehran ahead of the strike that killed Khamenei.
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