SA’s Iranian embassy in mourning after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei assassination

The Iranian embassy in South Africa is in mourning following the assassination of the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Khamenei was killed in Israeli and American airstrikes over the weekend, sparking retaliatory attacks from Tehran.

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In response, the Iranian military has launched strikes on Gulf countries in the Middle East that are believed to be hosting United States (US) military bases.

The spokesperson for the Iranian embassy in South Africa, Hamidreza Oraee, said the US is in violation of multiple international laws.

“The cowardly terrorist act carried out by the United States of America regime and the Zionist regime targeting the prominent leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and other senior officials of the country as part of a military aggression against the territorial integrity and national sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran constitutes an unprecedented result on all normative and ethical principles recognised by humanity.”

Meanwhile, in a video posted on social media app Truth, American President Donald Trump has urged authorities in Iran to surrender.

“I, once again, urge the Iranian military and police to lay down your arms and receive full immunity or face certain death. It will be certain death. It won’t be pretty.”