Iran’s state media has confirmed that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been killed, after attacks across Iran by Israel and the US, which began on Saturday morning local time.

The state media announcement of Ayatollah Khamenei’s death came after US President Donald Trump said he was dead and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Khamenei’s Tehran compound had been destroyed in “a powerful, surprise strike”.

Iran responded to the attack, which came two days after US-Iranian talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme ended without a deal, by launching missiles and drones towards Israel and four Gulf Arab countries which host US military bases: Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE.