2026-03-01
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You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.
This edition is published in the early hours of Sunday, the 1st of March.
Iran has confirmed the death of its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The 86-year-old cleric was killed during a barrage of US-Israeli strikes.
President Trump called him one of the most evil people in history,
as some people celebrate it in Iran.
But who is in charge now?
Also in the podcast we hear about Iranian retaliation hitting targets across the Middle East and threatening to close a key oil transit route and we get an update from the UN Security Council.
For nearly four decades Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has wielded absolute power in Iran but no longer.
As dawn broke in Tehran, Iranian state media confirmed he was dead,