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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst.

President Trump said on social media today that Iran's supreme leader,

Ali Khamenei, is dead.

A person briefed on the situation tells NPR he was killed by an Israeli strike.

Earlier today, the U.S. and Israel conducted joint strikes on Iran.

And as impairs, Tamara Keith reports, President Trump is calling for regime change.

Trump cited maligned behavior by Iran and its proxies going back to the 1980s. He asserted

that Iran is trying to rebuild its nuclear program and could develop a missile that may

someday reach the U.S. He said Iran's missile industry, Navy, and proxies would all be targeted.

This regime will soon learn that no one should challenge the strength and might of the United

States Armed Forces.

He then spoke directly to the people of Iran. Stay sheltered. Don't leave your home. It's very

dangerous outside. bombs will be dropping everywhere. When we are finished, take over your government.

It will be yours to take. Tamara Keith, NPR News. And following the strikes, Iran says

it's closing the Strait of Hermuz, the waterway crucial to the world's oil trade following the

Israeli strikes. Iran's state media said this was the announcement relayed by the Islamic

Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy to ships in the area around the strategic waterway.

All navigating through the Strait of Hormuz is forbidden.

No ships in every type is not allowed to pass from a strait of Hormor.

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