Iran has offered the first look inside the shattered compound where Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a US-Israeli airstrike at the outset of the war.
The Iranian regime released a new 50-second video documenting the devastation from the blast, presenting the footage during a six-day funeral observance for the 86-year-old leader, who had ruled the Islamic Republic with a firm grip since 1989.
Inside, the compound is almost impossible to identify as a functioning building, with the Feb. 28 missile strikes leaving little beyond exposed support beams and twisted rebar.
Heaps of debris blanket the floors, beneath warped ceiling supports and doors ripped from their hinges in the same building where Khamenei once held meetings and delivered public sermons.
Aerial footage from outside shows the former stronghold reduced to a collapsed field of jagged wreckage and mangled metal.
Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, who succeeded the Ayatollah after the airstrikes that destroyed the compound, has not appeared publicly since the early days of the war and has so far been absent from his father’s funeral.
President Trump said Wednesday that an interim cease-fire agreement with Iran, intended as a possible first step toward ending the fighting, was “over,” while warning of additional strikes and denouncing the country’s leadership as “scum.”
The US restarted air operations against Iran this week, hitting roughly 90 targets nationwide over two days of attacks.
