Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family have been hiding in an underground bunker in Lavizan, located in northeastern Tehran, to seek shelter after Israel launched its attacks on Tehran early Friday,

An Israeli cabinet minister accused Iran's Supreme Leader of targeting Israeli civilians with airstrikes. Israel claims to have gained aerial dominance faster than expected, while the Iranian leader vowed retaliation against Israel's actions.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is alive and is being continuously briefed about the situation, a security source told Reuters, following an Israeli attack on Iran early on Friday.

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has weathered a series of challenges but Israel's unprecedented strikes mark his most serious crisis yet, threatening both the clerical system he leads and his own physical survival.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is facing a backlash from his own regime after Israel carried out a series of deadly attacks on the Islamic Republic

The military exchanges worsened between Israel and Iran overnight on Monday as strikes hit residential areas, killing and wounding civilians on both sides.

BREAKING: Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei suffers a major blow as his top advisor and former security chief Ali Shamkhani is reported killed in a suspected Israeli airstrike. This comes amid heightened tensions under Operation True Promise III,