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Iranians celebrate Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei death after strikes

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Iranians across the country could be seen and heard celebrating the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following coordinated Israeli attacks throughout the night.

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

In social media videos, Iranians in Tehran cheered from their apartments by 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 cheering at the news.

Celebrators in Borazjan, Iran, sang hymns, and in Mamasani, they waved flags and danced.

People celebrate in Madrid, Spain. (European Press via Carlos Lujan/Getty Images)

People also celebrated in the Iranian cities of Shiraz and Abadan, according to Lisa Daftari, editor of The Export Desk, “who took to the streets well into the night to celebrate Iran on the verge of finding its freedom after almost fifty years.”

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Iranians also welcomed this news in other parts of the world, such as Madrid, London, Berlin, Armenia and the USA.

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

“From Los Angeles to Tehran, Iranians around the world are celebrating in the streets. [in] Speaking to Fox News Digital, Daftari said, “I feel great joy for the birth of a new and free Iran.”

“Iranians took to the streets, cheering, clapping, waving the lion and sun flag, openly dancing and singing the old national anthem. It is hard to imagine a people so hungry for freedom, so desperate for justice, applauding military attacks on their own territory as the price of liberation.”

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

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

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 celebrate. They celebrate with joy.”