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By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — The killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by the United States and Israel has created a power vacuum in the core of the Iranian regime and sparked the complex process of finding his successor. The Islamic Republic has only replaced its supreme leader once since it swept to power nearly

By Kara Fox, Leila Gharagozlou, CNN (CNN) — Iranians awoke Sunday for the first time in decades without Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as their supreme leader after he was killed in US-Israeli strikes, a profound shift in the nation’s history. As Israel continues its attacks on Iran amid Tehran’s vow to avenge Khamenei’s death, people across

By Karen Esquivel, CNN en Español (CNN) — In 2021, Héctor Daniel Flores Hernández was reported missing. Two years later, his father, Héctor Flores, saw his son’s image speak again. In a video generated through artificial intelligence technology, which digitally animated a still image and gave it a synthesized voice, the figure of Héctor Daniel

By Mick Krever, Isobel Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have issued a draconian decree that makes sodomy punishable by death and allows men to beat their wives so long as they don’t break bones or leave visible, lasting wounds. Human rights campaigners have decried the move as “devastating” and warned that women’s

By Frederik Pleitgen and Mostafa Salem (CNN) — US President Donald Trump has crossed “a very dangerous red line” by killing Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the Iranian deputy foreign minister Saeed Khatibzadeh told CNN in an exclusive interview on Sunday. Khatibzadeh said many Shiite followers across the world will react to the killing of

By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — “Conclave” the movie provides a gripping, if fictional, behind-the-scenes look inside the secretive election of a new pope. But last year’s real-life conclave was just as dramatic, with plenty of plot twists, political battles among cardinals and a surprise outcome. A new book lifts a lid on how, in

By Laura Sharman, Abbas Al Lawati, CNN (CNN) — Passengers rushed to evacuate one of the world’s busiest airports on Sunday after a reported Iranian strike, as Tehran targeted travel hubs in US-friendly Gulf states typically regarded as safe, luxury destinations. Dramatic footage shows people fleeing a smoke-filled passageway strewn with furniture and debris at

By Abbas Al Lawati, CNN (CNN) — Iran’s clerical regime now faces the prospect of trying to find a successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following his killing in joint US-Israeli strikes. The veteran leader, who ruled with an iron fist for nearly four decades, does not have an officially declared heir. Instead, an

By Abbas Al Lawati, Laura Smith-Spark, CNN (CNN) — Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, who ruled Iran with an iron fist as its supreme leader for nearly four decades, facing off against the US and Israel while crushing dissent and advancing a controversial nuclear program at home, has been killed, a seismic development that plunges his

By Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Thomas Bordeaux, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Katie Polglase, Isaac Yee, Teele Rebane, Avery Schmitz, Farida Elsebai, CNN (CNN) — After the United States and Israel launched a regime change operation against Iran on Saturday morning, footage emerging on social media and geolocated by CNN offered a window into its impacts. The attacks have hit

By Tal Shalev, Jeremy Diamond, Abbas Al Lawati, CNN (CNN) — Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s hardline supreme leader who ruled the country for almost four decades, was killed in Saturday’s joint US-Israeli strikes, Iranian state media confirmed Sunday, prompting celebration among Iranians who opposed his rule and fury from pro-regime loyalists. An Iranian TV broadcaster

By Lou Robinson, Renée Rigdon, Rosa de Acosta, Janie Boschma, Matt Stiles, Soph Warnes, Rhyannon Bartlett-Imadegawa, Henrik Pettersson, Gillian Roberts, Annette Choi, Amy O’Kruk, CNN (CNN) — War has shaken the Middle East for weeks after the United States and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, sparking retaliatory strikes from Iran and its proxies against

By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — North Korea on Saturday released pictures showing leader Kim Jong Un and his teenage daughter at a rifle range, the latest propaganda images to promote the child touted as a potential successor. State media KCNA said Kim and his daughter – along with Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister Kim

By Christian Edwards, Karina Tsui, Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — Joint US-Israeli attacks on Iran have killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme leader for nearly four decades, thrusting the country into uncertainty and sparking a conflict that could draw in much of the Middle East. Donald Trump announced Khamenei’s death on Saturday, and Iranian

By Abbas Al Lawati, Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — “Curious to know why we do not capitulate? Because we are IRANIAN,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote after US envoy Steve Witkoff said President Donald Trump was wondering why Tehran hadn’t yielded to American pressure over its nuclear program. The remark captures much of the

CNN By Jeremy Diamond, Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told embassy staff in an email on Friday that if they want to leave the country amid the possibility of a strike on Iran they “should do so TODAY,” according to a source familiar with the message. Huckabee told embassy

By Christian Edwards, CNN London (CNN) — The special election in northern England was supposed to be neck-and-neck-and-neck: a three-way scrap between the governing Labour Party, fighting to keep control of a seat in its historic heartland, and two outsiders – the hard-right populist Reform UK party, and the new-look progressive Green Party. In the

By Jeremy Diamond, Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told embassy staff in an email on Friday that if they want to leave the country amid the possibility of a strike on Iran they “should do so TODAY,” according to a source familiar with the message. Huckabee told embassy staff