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parents and teachers.
The U.S.
military says it's looking into these reports, while the IDF of Israel says it was not aware of any operations in the area.
It is clear in Iran, though, that the assassination of the supreme leader has convulsed the country in a way millions of Iranians have never felt before.
BBC Persian is monitoring developments, and Kazra Nagy told me more about the public reaction.
Will this bring Iranians closer together or divide them further?
We heard Seb there talking about this three-person council who will run the country until a new leader is chosen.
But can you choose a new supreme leader when the country is under attack like this?
Qasra Najee from BBC Persian.
So how long will the US and Israeli strikes go on in Iran?
And do both nations have a long-term plan for the future of Iran?
Jonathan Conricus is the former international spokesman for the Israeli Defence Forces, or IDF, and now a senior fellow at the Washington think tank, the Foundation for Defence of Democracies.
former IDF spokesman Jonathan Conricus.
Iran initially responded to the Israel-US attack with a flurry of missile and drone strikes across the Middle East, killing at least two people in Abu Dhabi and another in Tel Aviv, before following up with a new wave after state media confirmed Khamenei's death.
Speaking at the scene of an Iranian retaliatory strike in Tel Aviv, Israel's President Isaac Herzog had this to say.
I spoke to the BBC's John Donison, who's at the scene of that strike.
The Israelis must have had very good intelligence, incredible intelligence, to target the Iranian leadership so precisely.
What have you heard?
What do Israelis make of this?
Do they welcome the attacks on Iran, or are they worried about where this could go?