What is believed to be the last photograph of late-Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been released by Iran.
The image, showing him reading, is reported to have been taken on the day he was eliminated by a joint US-Israeli airstrike as part of Operation Roaring Lion/Epic Fury.
Khamenei was killed on February 28 on the first day of the US-Israel operation in Iran.
The next time his picture was seen was reportedly by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – and this picture was said to have shown his body covered in shrapnel under the rubble of his obliterated compound in Tehran.
The 86-year-old had ruled the Islamic Republic since 1989 when he succeeded his father Ayatollah Khomeini and was responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Iranian dissidents - most notably in the months that preceded his death amid the uprising.
By the beginning of the following week, the IDF had announced that all the top leaders who sat under Khamenei in the regime’s hierarchy had also been eliminated.
But by the second week of March, when the war had reached its tenth day, Iran named Khamenei’s middle son Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, as the new supreme leader.
Khamenei’s oldest son, who was long-expected to be the frontrunner to succeed his father, had already, like Khamenei, been killed on the first day of the war.
Mojtaba, who joined the Islamic Republic Guards Corp (IRGC) at the age of 17 and fought in the "notoriously ideological" 27th Mohammad Rasulullah Division, was confirmed by the Assembly of Experts - a selection panel made up of 88 senior clerics.
Kasra Aarabi, director of IRGC research at United Against Nuclear Iran, has described him as "like his father - only on steroids".
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