Putin calls Khamenei killing ‘cynical violation’ of ‘morality and international law’

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday slammed the killing of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US and Israeli strikes as a “cynical violation” of morality and law.
In a letter to his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian published by the Kremlin, Putin expressed “deepest condolences for the assassination of” Khamenei, saying the killing was “carried out in a cynical violation of all norms of human morality and international law.”