BREAKING: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed and his body has been found, reports Reuters, citing Israeli media reports. 🔴 LIVE updates:

US, Israel attack Iran live: Israel claims Khamenei killed, Iran denies

Israeli officials and US President Donald Trump claim that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed. Iran denied the killing, with semi-official media saying he is “steadfast” in command of the field.
Trump says the US has begun “major combat operations” in Iran after Israel also said it ⁠had launched missile attacks against the country.

Multiple explosions were heard in Iran’s capital, Tehran, while blasts were also reported in several other locations across the country. A strike on a school in southern Iran has killed more than 80 people, according to state media.
Iranian media reports, citing the Red Crescent, say at least 201 people have been killed across 24 provinces.
Iran has retaliated, targeting Israel and US assets in multiple Middle East countries, including Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
Several countries across the region have shut their airspace amid the exchange of attacks.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei killed, Reuters and Israeli media report
The Reuters news agency and Israeli media are reporting Khamenei’s killing, citing unnamed “senior” Israeli officials.

The ⁠head of public relations at the Iranian ⁠supreme leader’s office accused the country’s enemies of “mental warfare” after Israeli reports Ayatollah ‌Ali Khamenei had been killed, Iranian state media reported.

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Iran says ‘we will make Israel, US pay’
Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, has issued this stern warning to the US and Israel as they continue to attack targets throughout the country.

“The brave soldiers and the great nation of Iran will give an unforgettable lesson to the international oppressive hellish ones”, he said, according to the official news agency IRNA.

We have obtained a letter from Iran’s foreign minister addressed to the UN Security Council.

Essentially, the letter points out many things, but really a key point is that it lays out the legal case that Iran can respond under the auspices of the UN Charter to defend itself.

The UNSC will soon hold an emergency meeting on the situation.

This was requested by China and Russia, and we are being told that the Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, will chair the meeting and make remarks at the very top.

What is unknown at this point is whether any other countries will participate.

We know that Iran will. We know that Israel will.

But what is still unknown is if any of the Gulf countries will take part in the meeting, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, for example.