US Rejects Claims It Assassinated Iranian Leader Ayatollah Khamenei

The US has said that it is not involved in the death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Pentagon top official, Elbridge Colby, said that the Iranian leader was killed as a result of an Israeli attack.

Colby told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the strike which killed Khamenei and other top Iranian leaders was not part of the U.S. military campaign.

Colby said, “Those are Israeli operations,” as he pushed back when lawmakers asked if changing the regime was a goal of U.S. actions.

This appeared to have contradicted President Donald Trump’s earlier comment when he said Khamenei could not get around the U.S. intelligence and advanced tracking systems.

He also mentioned that, along with other leaders who were killed, Khamenei and others did not have much control because the US was working closely with Israel.

However, Colby said the main targets were Iran’s missile capabilities, which have increased a lot, along with their ability to build those weapons and parts of their navy.

He said those goals were “doable and reasonable targets that can be achieved.”

US and Israel attacks on Iran over the weekend killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Khamenei died alongside his daughter, grandchild, son-in-law, and daughter-in-law were also killed in the strike.

The Israeli army said that Ali Shamkhani, a top advisor to Khamenei, and the head of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards, General Mohammad Pakpour, were also killed in the strikes.

US said that over 49 top officials of the Iranian military have been taken out so far.