Ayatollah Khamenei, who battled the US and Israel for decades as Iran’s supreme leader, has been killed

By Abbas Al Lawati, Laura Smith-Spark, CNN (CNN) — Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, who ruled Iran with an iron fist as its supreme leader for nearly four decades, facing off against the US and Israel while crushing dissent and advancing a controversial nuclear program at home, has been killed, a seismic development that plunges his