Prabowo Sends Condolence Letter Over Death of Ali Khamenei via Foreign Minister Sugiono

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - President Prabowo Subianto has sent a condolence letter following the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Ali Khamenei is reported to have died as a result of a military strike by Israel and the United States over the weekend. The dispatch of the letter was disclosed by Cabinet Secretary Teddy Indra Wijaya on Wednesday, March 4, 2026. ‘President Prabowo Subianto wrote a condolence letter on the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the military strike in early March 2026,’ Teddy said in a statement via the Instagram account @sekretariat.kabinet. Sugiono then met with Iran’s Ambassador to Indonesia, Mohammad Boroujerdi, in Jakarta to deliver it. The letter, Teddy said, was addressed to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. ‘The official letter of deep condolences on the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is addressed to the President of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian, and was handed over in person by Foreign Minister Sugiono to the Iranian ambassador in Jakarta,’ Teddy explained. For information, the war in the Middle East has escalated after Iran was targeted by Israeli and US attacks on Saturday, February 28, 2026 local time. Israel was the first to confirm that it had launched an attack on Iran. Shortly after, US President Donald Trump officially announced that the United States would join Israel in attacking Iran. The war between Israel and America and Iran was marked by missiles raining down on Tehran. Several rockets hit several vital points, including a residence in the Narmak neighbourhood in Tehran, where former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lived.