Iranian state media announced early on Sunday that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed, the New York Times reports.

From the statement: “To Allah we belong and to Him we shall return.”

“President Trump’s decision to attack Iran pushed a new, unpredictable issue to the forefront of American politics just as the midterms were getting underway, leaving both major parties navigating a volatile and potentially divisive conflict,” the New York Times reports.

“Republicans on Saturday largely cast the strikes as a vital operation to confront a dangerous, authoritarian adversary, while Democrats warned that the operation could spiral into a perilous and protracted military campaign that would threaten to destabilize the region.”

Anne Applebaum: “The American bombardment of Iran has been launched without explanation, without Congress, without even an attempt to build public support. Above all, it has been launched without a coherent strategy for the Iranian people, and without a plan to let them decide how to build a legitimate Iranian state…”

“The absence of broader strategy fits a pattern. For decades, American presidents from both parties have oscillated between coercion and engagement with Iran, sometimes offering diplomacy, sometimes sanctions. Doves and hawks both sought to manage the tactics of the Islamic Republic—its nuclear ambitions, its ballistic missiles, its network of proxy militias throughout the Middle East—without ever coming up with a meaningful strategy to combat the root problem: the ideology of the regime itself.”

Karim Sadjadpour: “In the end, he was felled by Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, an American president and an Israeli prime minister whom he loathed. He lived by ‘Death to America’ and ‘Death to Israel.’ He died by death from America and Israel.”

The surprise overnight bombing attack in Iran was blasted Saturday by both sides of the political spectrum, including MAGA stalwarts Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes and Marjorie Taylor Greene, with the former Georgia congresswoman calling it the work of “sick fucking liars,” The Wrap reports.

Carlson told ABC News the decision was “absolutely disgusting and evil.”

President Trump confirmed reports that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in airstrikes today, NBC News reports.

Said Trump: “We feel that that is a correct story.”

He added that “most” of Iran’s senior leadership is “gone,” saying: “The people that make all the decisions, most of them are gone.”

Israel’s ambassador to Washington told U.S. officials that Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei “was killed in an Israeli strike Saturday as part of a massive joint military operation between the U.S. and Israel,” Axios reports.

“Khamenei’s killing sets off an immediate succession crisis with no clear answer.”

New York Times: “The first strikes in Israel’s attack on Iran, which began on Saturday alongside the United States, had a central goal: Assassinate the regime’s top leaders.”

Wall Street Journal: “Israel dropped 30 bombs on Khamenei’s compound.”

CNN: “One of the sources said Israel had obtained a photo of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s dead body. The second source said an official announcement is being prepared.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday evening that “there are many signs” that Iran’s supreme leader is “no longer with us,” while stopping short of saying definitively that he was killed, CNN reports.

Said Netanyahu: “There are many signs that this tyrant is no longer with us.”

President Trump told Axios that he has several “off ramps” from Operation Epic Fury, the extraordinary U.S. military campaign against Iran.

Said Trump: “I can go long and take over the whole thing, or end it in two or three days and tell the Iranians: ‘See you again in a few years if you start rebuilding.’ In any case, it will take them several years to recover from this attack.”

“Congressional Democrats are moving to force votes to curb President Trump’s military action against Iran, denouncing the administration’s strikes on Saturday as illegal and accusing the White House of bypassing Congress,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Lawmakers in both chambers said they would seek war-powers resolutions to block Trump from using military force against Iran in the future. They also urged the Trump administration to justify the reason for the strikes, calling the actions illegal and unconstitutional.”

Dan Pfeiffer: “Democrats must loudly and boldly oppose this war. They have a moral responsibility and a political obligation to do so. If Democrats cannot bring themselves to oppose an idiotic, unjustified regime change war in the Middle East, they do not deserve the power they seek.”

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) questioned whether Donald Trump was “mentally incapacitated” after the president unleashed a full-scale attack on Iran, the Daily Beast reports.

Said Kaine: “Has President Donald Trump learned nothing from decades of U.S. meddling in Iran and forever wars in the Middle East? Is he too mentally incapacitated to realize that we had a diplomatic agreement with Iran that was keeping is nuclear program in check, until he ripped it up during his first term?”

Nancy Youssef and Jonathan Lemire: “During his presidential campaigns, Trump reassured his supporters there would be no more ‘forever wars,’ and that the U.S. wouldn’t be bogged down in the Middle East. But with the launch of air strikes this morning, the U.S. is once again on the front lines of conflict there, with the desire to overthrow a nation’s government.”

“How long war lasts—and where it leads Iran—is not up to just Trump or Israel. The fate of a war Trump sees as shaping his legacy is now in the hands of both the regime and the people inside Iran.”