Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in hiding with extra security following Hezbollah leader's death: report

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has moved into hiding and remains astatine a unafraid determination wrong the country, sources told Reuters.

The determination came successful effect to Israel's strikes extracurricular Beirut connected Friday that killed the person and founding subordinate of the Iran-backed violent radical Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah. 

Two sources besides told Reuters that Iran reached retired to Hezbollah and different proxy forces successful the portion to find what enactment to instrumentality successful effect to Nasrallah's killing. 

In a connection Saturday, Khamenei said, "The destiny of this portion volition beryllium determined by the forces of resistance, with Hezbollah astatine the forefront."  

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Iran's ultimate person Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks aft casting his ballot during the runoff statesmanlike predetermination successful Tehran connected July 5, 2024. (ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Image)

While announcing 5 days of nationalist mourning, Khamenei called Nasrallah "the flag-bearer of resistance" successful the region.

"The humor of the martyr shall not spell unavenged," Khamenei said, according to Reuters. 

Iranian media reported connected Saturday that the Israeli strikes extracurricular Lebanon's superior besides killed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' lawman commander, Abbas Nilforoushan. 

Israel has killed respective different apical Hezbollah commanders successful Beirut, particularly successful the past 2 weeks, successful summation to the onslaught that killed Nasrallah.

Earlier this month, thousands of explosives hidden successful pagers and walkie-talkies utilized by Hezbollah detonated, sidesplitting astatine slightest a twelve radical and injuring thousands, according to officials successful Lebanon. Israel is wide believed to beryllium down the onslaught but has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility.

Reuters cited 1 Iranian information authoritative arsenic revealing that the Revolutionary Guards is carrying retired a ample standard cognition to inspect each communications devices. 

Most of the devices were made successful Lebanon oregon imported from China and Russia, the authoritative said, arsenic Iran is conducting a thorough probe centered connected mid- and high-ranking members of the Revolutionary Guards. 

Iran is considering the anticipation of infiltration by Israeli agents, including Iranians paid by Israel, the authoritative told Reuters. 

A demonstrator raises a representation of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during an anti-Israel protestation successful Tehran connected Sept. 27, 2024.  (AFP via Getty Images)

In effect to Nasrallah's death, hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Tehran, waving Hezbollah flags and chanting, "Death to Israel," and, "Death to Netanyahu the murderer," the Associated Press reported. 

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian partially blamed the United States for Nasrallah's killing, fixed that Washington has been providing weapons to Israel. 

"The Americans cannot contradict their complicity with the Zionists," helium said successful a connection aired by authorities media, according to Reuters. 

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Hezbollah started firing rockets connected Israel successful enactment of Gaza connected Oct. 8, a time aft Hamas terrorists launched an unprecedented onslaught connected Israel, sidesplitting immoderate 1,200 radical and taking different 250 arsenic hostages. 

Since then, the 2 sides person been engaged successful escalating cross-border strikes. Iran's proxies see Hamas successful Gaza, Hezbollah successful Lebanon, Houthis successful Yemen, arsenic good arsenic different forces operating successful Iraq. The Houthis person been launching missiles astatine Israel and ships successful the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea on the Yemeni seashore pursuing the Oct. 7 attacks. 

In his archetypal nationalist remarks since Nasrallah's killing, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel’s targeting of Nasrallah was "an indispensable information to achieving the goals we set."

"He wasn’t different terrorist. He was the terrorist," Netanyahu said.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is depicted connected a banner adjacent to a ballistic rocket successful Baharestan Square successful Tehran, Iran, connected Sept. 26, 2024.  (HOSSEIN BERIS/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Netanyahu said Nasrallah’s sidesplitting would assistance bring displaced Israelis backmost to their homes successful the northbound and would unit Hamas to escaped Israeli hostages held successful Gaza. But with the menace of retaliation high, helium warned the coming days would bring "significant challenges" and warned Iran against trying to strike.

Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani wrote a missive to the heads of the United Nations and the Security Council connected Saturday calling for an exigency assembly gathering implicit the onslaught that killed Nasrallah.

"Using U.S.-supplied thousand-pound bunker busters," helium wrote, Israel killed Nasrallah and Nilforoushan, among others.

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He warned Israel not to onslaught immoderate of its diplomatic oregon consular premises, oregon its representatives, according to the AP. 

"Iran volition not hesitate to workout its inherent rights nether planetary instrumentality to instrumentality each measurement successful defence of its captious nationalist and information interests," Iravani wrote.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.