The assassination of Iran’s ayatollah – and fears for a wider conflict – podcast

Iran’s supreme leader was killed in a military strike on his compound as Israel and the US launched attacks on the country. Patrick Wintour reports He survived imprisonment, assassination attempts, decades of protests and exerted a brutal iron grip on Iran’s 90 million people. Now, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is dead. He was killed by US and Israeli air strikes that levelled the compound where he and some of the most senior regime leaders were sheltering. As news of the aya...

By Presented by Annie Kelly with Patrick Wintour; produced by Danielle Stephens and Eli Block; executive producer Homa Khaleeli