Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian today announced the interim leadership council formed after supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a US-Israel strike has started working on their important tasks.

The death count from an Iranian missile attack Sunday in the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh rose to at least nine people, first responders said, in the deadliest strike in the country since the war began.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a series of military strikes on Tehran carried out by the United States and Israel, Iranian state media confirmed on Sunday.