Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, who ruled Iran with an iron fist as its supreme leader for nearly four decades, facing off against the US and Israel while crushing dissent and advancing a controversial nuclear program at home, has been killed, a seismic development that plunges his nation and the region into uncharted territory. Multiple Iranian … The post Ayatollah Khamenei, who battled the US and Israel for decades as Iran’s supreme leader, has been killed appeared first on Egypt Independent .