Ankara - Islamic State's leader Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi is definitely dead, Iran's state news agency quoted
a representative of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei as saying on Thursday.
"Terrorist Baghdadi is definitely dead," cleric Ali Shirazi,
who is representative to the Quds force, told IRNA without
elaborating.
The secretive Islamic State leader has frequently been
reported killed or wounded since he declared a caliphate to rule
over all Muslims from a mosque in Mosul in 2014, after his
fighters seized large areas of northern Iraq.