Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's death just lit a fuse, and the entire Middle East is feeling the blast radius.
Trump's warning to Iran
Trump's warning to Iran
- Donald Trump put Iran on notice, threatening a scale of force never deployed before.
- Trump's statement came after Iran signaled it was gearing up for a major strike.
- Iran's Islamic Republic Guard Corps vowed to hunt down those it labeled Khamenei's murderers.
- The IRGC promised its response would be the most ferocious offensive operation in its history against the US and Israel.
- Operation True Promise 4's fifth wave targeted American vessels in the Indian Ocean, hitting an ammunition-carrying ship with four drones.
- A refueling tanker in the Indian Ocean also took hits from Iranian Qadr 380 missiles.
- Four ballistic missiles and 12 drones slammed into the American naval base in Kuwait's Abdullah Al-Mubarak region.
- The IRGC claimed all primary infrastructure at the base got wiped out.
- A significant number of American forces were reportedly killed or wounded in the attack.
- Khamenei's death came from a joint US-Israeli strike, ending 46 years of Shia-theocratic rule in Tehran.
- His killing triggered a chain of retaliatory moves that set off conflicts across a wide stretch of the Middle East.
- The IRGC, the Armed Forces, and the Basij forces all pledged to carry on his legacy and resist what they called internal and external plots.
