Iranians celebrate Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei death after strikes

Iranians across the country could be seen and heard celebrating the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after coordinated Israeli strikes overnight.

In one video, Iranians near Karaj, Iran, outside the capital Tehran, took to the streets, honked their horns and cheered.

In videos posted on social media, Iranians in Tehran cheered from their apartments, playing loud music and setting off fireworks as the news spread.

In Fuladshahr, people filled the streets, waving their arms in the air, whistling, honking and clapping at the news.

In Borazjan, Iran, celebrants sang, and in Mamasani they waved flags and danced.

People party in Madrid, Spain. (Carlos Lujan/Europa Press via Getty Images)

People also celebrated in the Iranian cities of Shiraz and Abadan, “where people are on the streets until the wee hours of the night celebrating an Iran that is on the verge of regaining its freedom after nearly five decades,” according to Foreign Desk editor Lisa Daftari.

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Iranians also cheered the news in other parts of the world, such as in Madrid, London, Berlin, Armenia and the United States.

People celebrated Khamenei’s death on Saturday in Berlin. (Christophe Gateau/Picture Alliance via Getty Images)

“Iranians around the world, from Los Angeles to Tehran, are taking to the streets to celebrate [in] pure jubilation at the dawn of a new and free Iran,” Daftari told Fox News Digital.

“Iranians took to the streets en masse to clap, cheer, wave the lion and sun flag, dance openly and sing the old national anthem. It is difficult to imagine a people so hungry for freedom, so desperate for justice, that they applaud military strikes on their own soil as the price of liberation.

A woman waves an Iranian flag as people celebrate Khamenei’s death in Los Angeles. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

In Los Angeles, home to the largest Iranian community in the United States, hundreds of people came out Saturday to wave Iranian and American flags.

Some people also held signs with phrases such as “Make Iran Great Again.”

“I love America. I love everything about this country,” Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad told Fox News on Saturday.

“I grew up in a country where I was brainwashed to say ‘Death to America,’ the same country – how ironic – the same country that saved my life three times and is now helping my people in Iran. They are celebrating. They are celebrating with joy.

A family celebrates while watching Fox News in Vienna, Virginia. (Reuters/Nathan Howard)

“Thank you, President Trump, for taking decisive action. This is what real leadership looks like.”

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Los Angeles and other American cities, such as Boston; Washington, DC; and New York City held competing anti-war protests, as did European cities.

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