Iran has given the world its first glimpse inside the bombed-out compound where Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a US-Israel airstrike at the start of the war.
The Iranian regime has released a new 50-second video showing the destruction left by the blast as part of a six-day funeral for the 86-year-old, who ruled the Islamic Republic with an iron fist since 1989.
The gutted interior of the compound is barely recognizable as a structure, the Feb. 28 missile strikes stripping it down to support beams and rebar.
Deep piles of rubble cover the entire floor, draped with buckled ceiling supports and doors blown clean off the hinges in the building Khamenei once held meetings and delivered public sermons.
Exterior aerial shots show the once-mighty destroyed compound is now little more than a crumbled mess of jagged, twisted metal.
Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, who took over for the Ayatollah after he was incinerated by the airstrikes that destroyed his compound, has not been seen since the attacks in the early days of the war, and has even been a no-show at his father’s funeral so far.
President Trump said Wednesday that an interim cease-fire agreement signed with Iran hoping to lay the foundation to bring about the end of hostilities was “over,” and threatened more strikes as he called the country’s leadership “scum.”
The US resumed airstrikes against Iran this week, striking approximately 90 targets across the country in two days of attacks
