US & Israeli Airstrikes Kill Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, More
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News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Dan Schwartzman. Iranian state TV announcing that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in Israeli and U.S. airstrikes hours after President Trump announced on social media that Khamenei was dead. Israel also saying key military commanders were also killed, including Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Commander Mohammad Pakpour. As some question the timing of the military strikes over Iran, former National Security Advisor and Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton joined Bloomberg this weekend and said that China played a role as to why the U.S. acted now.
China, which was reported widely in the press in the past week or so, is being on the verge of signing a contract to sell Iran anti-ship missiles, which are obviously of great concern to us. So this is just one more reason why acting now against Iran saves us from potentially even greater risk in the future.
That's former National Security Advisor and Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton earlier on Bloomberg this weekend. As American and Israeli missiles and bombs were falling on Iran, President Trump in a video posted to Truth Social said, quote, when we're finished, take over your government. Trump, addressing Iranians directly, said, quote, it will be yours to take. This will be probably your only chance for generations. Meanwhile, Iran retaliating throughout the day, firing ballistic missiles across the Mideast at U.S. targets in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait, while also firing a barrage of drones and missiles at Israel. Bloomberg's Israel bureau chief, Ethan Bronner, is in Tel Aviv.
There's been all day long sirens here at the north and the south. So far, according to Israeli officials, at least in the last hour that I've heard, they have only about 40 missiles that have landed here. And there's a range of predictions about how bad it will get. I just was listening to one analyst say this is just the beginning. They're going to have cruise missiles and ballistic missiles and drones. It's going to go on. It's going to get rough. That could well be. Others are saying that the reason Israel and the U.S. chose to attack now is because the Iranians had suffered quite a lot in June and couldn't rebuild enough to really come back at these guys. We shall see.
That's Bloomberg's Israel Bureau Chief Ethan Bronner in Tel Aviv. Bloomberg's Jomana Bersetchi says these strikes are very different from the U.S. strikes on Iran back in June, mostly because Iran responded right away.
This time around, they were ready to go, and they fired back at U.S. bases dotted around the Gulf. And here I'm talking about Qatar, about Bahrain, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi. With explosions heard in various of those bases, even citizens were receiving siren warnings, alerts on their phones and notifying them that an attack was imminent.
That's Bloomberg's Jumana Briseci. The bombing campaign over Iran and the subsequent retaliation has led to more than 2,300 flight cancellations being recorded in the Middle East, with more than 90 percent of departures from Dubai International Airport being scrapped.
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