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Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service coming live from London.
This is Owen Bennett-Jones.
Well Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei's leadership of Iran was defined by resisting the United States and Israel abroad and crushing dissent at home.
For 36 years he was the supreme leader, a religious authority with worldly power.
But today, as dawn broke in Tehran, Iranian state media confirmed he was dead, killed in his office in the first round of the US and Israeli strikes.
On state TV, the announcer broke down in tears as he told the nation that the leader had drunk, he said, the sweet, pure draft of martyrdom.
The announcement of the Ayatollah's death led to two very different reactions in Iran.
Social media clips showed people chanting slogans about freedom, dancing.
One video, verified by the BBC, filmed in the west of the capital Tehran shows people cheering and whistling from their windows and balconies.
Other Iranians reacted very differently, gathering in Tehran holding portraits of the Ayatollah in the air and waving Iranian flags and chanting his name.
We've also been hearing from people in Iran.