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Supreme Leader Khamenei’s wife dies after being wounded in US-Israeli strikes: Iranian media

The wife of Iran’s slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has died after succumbing to wounds sustained during the US-Israeli attack, Iranian media reported, according to AFP.

Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh, 79, had been in a coma since strikes on Saturday killed Khamenei, the Tasnim news agency said.

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