Iran’s Paris-based opposition head says time for Khamenei to go, after US hits nuclear sites

A protestor holds a picture of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as people gather for a rally in solidarity with Iran in the suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon. (Reuters)

PARIS: Maryam Rajavi, head of the Paris-based opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran said on Sunday that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was responsible for the nuclear program that had now “gone up in smoke” and needed to go.

“Now Khamenei must go. The Iranian people welcome the end of the war and seek peace and freedom,” she said in a statement, following unprecedented US strikes that President Donald Trump said had “obliterated” its key nuclear facilities.

“Khamenei is responsible for an unpatriotic project that, in addition to costing countless lives, has cost the Iranian people at least $2 trillion— and now, it has all gone up in smoke.”