Illustrative image. (Iranian Leader Press Office)
Iran confirmed on March 1 that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in the American-Israeli attack on the Islamic Republic that began a day earlier.
The death of Khamenei was first announced by United States President Donald Trump, who described him as “one of the most evil people in history.”
Khamenei — born April 19, 1939, in Mashhad — rose from a modest clerical family and became a key figure in Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution as a close ally of Ayatollah Khomeini; he served as President from 1981 to 1989 — surviving an assassination attempt that paralyzed his right arm — before succeeding Khomeini as Supreme Leader.
His long rule shaped Iran’s foreign policy, nuclear ambitions, and support for regional allies, while facing domestic opposition, international sanctions, and health challenges.
Iranian state television described Khamenei as being at his compound in downtown Tehran when the initial attack began. Satellite photos from Airbus show the site was heavily bombed.
The death of Iran’s Supreme Leader at his office “showed that he consistently stood among the people and at the forefront of his responsibilities, confronting what officials call global arrogance,” state TV said.
State television also announces that 40 days of public mourning over the late leader had been declared across the Islamic Republic.
Thousands rallied in different parts of Iran to call for revenge after the death of Khamenei was confirmed. Protests were also reported near the Green Zone in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, where the U.S. embassy is located, as well as near the U.S. consulate in Pakistan’s Karachi, were clashes broke out and at least six people were killed.
The Wall Street Journal, citing sources with knowledge on the assassination, reported that Israel and the U.S. waited for a rare opportunity to target Khamenei and top advisers in his palace. The report said that three such meetings were identified by intelligence authorities, leading to the unusual broad daylight strike, in which 30 bombs were dropped at the compound.
Khamenei “was unable to avoid our intelligence and highly sophisticated tracking systems and, working closely with Israel, there was not a thing he, or the other leaders [who] have been killed along with him, could do,” Trump said earlier on Truth Social, confirming the U.S. direct involvement in the assassination.
Soon after the death of the leader was confirmed, it was announced a council was formed to govern the Islamic Republic. Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani, who appears to be in charge now, said that the transition process will begin later in the day.
“An interim leadership council will soon be formed. The president, the head of the judiciary and a jurist from the Guardian Council will assume responsibility until the election of the next leader,” says Larijani, the head of Iran’s top security body, the Supreme National Security Council, who was an adviser to Khamenei.
“This council will be established as soon as possible. We are working to form it as early as today,” he says in an interview broadcast by state TV.
President Masoud Pezeshkian was among the Iranian leaders targeted in the opening strikes of the war on February 28, according to Hebrew media reports.
While Iranian media reports suggest that the president is alive and well, he is yet to be seen since the start of the war. This may be for security reasons, however.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) vowed to punish the “murderers” of Khamenei, promising what it says will be the “most ferocious offensive operation in history” against U.S. bases and Israel.
“The hand of revenge of the Iranian nation for a severe, decisive and regrettable punishment for the murderers of the Imam of the Ummah will not let go of them,” the guards said in a statement.
“The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and what it called the vast popular Basij forces will powerfully continue the path of their leader in defending his legacy, standing firm against internal and external plots and delivering what it described as a lesson-giving punishment to aggressors against the Islamic homeland,” it added.
On the other side, U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to hit Iran with unprecedented force if it strikes in the coming hours.
“Iran just stated that they are going to hit very hard today, harder than they have ever hit before. THEY BETTER NOT DO THAT, HOWEVER, BECAUSE IF THEY DO, WE WILL HIT THEM WITH A FORCE THAT HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The killing of Khamenei was without a doubt a blow to Iran. Nevertheless, it does not appear to have affected the command and control chain in the Islamic Republic.
Besides Khamenei, Iran confirmed the death of: Ali Shamkhani, a former IRGC Navy chief and Iranian army chief, and a top adviser to the Supreme Leader; Mohammad Pakpour, the commander of the IRGC; Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh, and Sayyid Abdolrahim Mousavi, chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces.
In total, it is reported that over 40 senior officials and commanders of the Islamic Republic were killed in the opening strikes of the war.
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alawites betrayal of syria is so disgusting, because it also led to the severing of ties between lebanon and iraq, that they deserve to be killed by isis-k that’s why iran has been attacked for the second time in six months, and that’s why i hope that someone will come to power in russia who will extradite everyone who has fled to russia to syria or the hague. iranian drones changed the course of the war in ukraine, and putin would be right to kill all the traitorous alawites.
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stormy would have bucked him off, regularly. big healthy girl that she was.
a dead mullah is a good mullah hahahaha
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what time? hahaha your ayatoilet is already dead hahahah
a dead mullah is a good mullah hahahaha
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you’re incredibly naive and stupid; it’s pathetic to listen to you. you sound like a mossad agent trying to hypnotize us with fairy tales. the only certainty is that as long as putin remains in charge of russia, the future for a multipolar world is very, very black.
after 911 we had every right to go into iraq then into syria and to have complete unimpeded transit and air supremacy all the way to iran. fackyeah. we are the number one chosen ones. and next we’ll get rooskies and the pathetic.chinks after that.fackyeah!
indeed russia will be next after yemen. the chinese are corrupt, weak and totally under us and zionist control and will be spared as they provide slave labor like india does.
taliban and houthis undefeated. but they think they can defeat iran, russia, china? what you smoking. they cannot even defeat kanye west, zohran mamdani or thomas masie
ayatollah get the definition of f.a.f.o
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russia and china will defeat them self, by pure inaction. international laws 😂 they should have beg adolf hitler rothschild to respect human rights. kill the wiggling cadaver “us”, latest in war for to hide, that whores can be bought 😂 get a private jet, if you dont believe me 😂
everybody knows your epstein elites are child fukkers. you are nothing. a bunch of talmud monkeys
the rapist of persia is no more hahahaha
a dead mullah is a good mullah hahahaha
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the most evil man on earth should get killed, adolf trump, and the fake ethnicitys of “jews” and “americans”. as long as russia worship the void, the zero, they will avoid to harm the root cause at any cost. it is mr putin, and their silly game of put the mentally insane einstein in charge, that are the traitors. a multipolar world are not allowed by sauron the great, or by any empire.
alawites not to blame. assad was complacent & too comfortable. destructive civil war against a long line of external/neighboring states, wealthy monarchs, wests intelligence services, military occupation, oil fields/wealth theft, israeli drone & airstrikes, armed gangs, islamic terrorist groups, jihadists, covert operations, dirty wars, & us sanctions, poverty, 90% joblessness, infrastructure loss & regional isolation.
assad wasn’t complacent. you listed why they collapsed. caught between a rock and a hard place ( and putin’s craven duplicity)
at least alawites do not rules russia. its the idiotic identification with “us”, that destroy. “islamic terrorist groups” 😂 they who sent trick movies in 9/11 ? filter mosquitos, and swallow white elephants.
matterfact russia even initially began bombing the advancing hts forces, stoping when the outcome was undeniable & assad ask for safe passage. & start strategic negotiations & dialogue to protect its own interests & basing rights. russia saved assad from collapse 8 years. it was hamas fault, launching that border incursion into israel creating the chain of events & conditions for hezbo to be beat, syria lost, iran bombed defense & deterrence lost.
this is the second attack in six months. the iranians should demand that russia pay for their drones, which turned the tide of the war in ukraine in putin’s favor. the iranians should demand that russia kill all the alawites who betrayed syria and fled to russia. it is more than obvious that the russians should take action and find all the alawites who betrayed everything they fought for and fled to russia. the russians should kill these alawites, because betrayal of this kind brings so muc
what’s after ‘muc’ ?
jews and amerikunts will never kill the spirit of resistance. there will be no surrender to child fukkers and child killers. the zionazi empire is clinging on the world that just was…..but it slipped out of their hands. so they had a fit of rage. “operation epic fury” is really operation epstein fury. iran will never surrender
what resistance? just look at the birth rates. collectively we are dysfunctional and are commiting group suicide.
allah gave ayatollah his 72 virgins
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“spirit of resistance” you’re a joke, they have no spirit 👻 much less resistance, they’re pant poopers who flee crying at the first opportunity, iran will get flattened 🔥 if it tries any funny tricks 🤡
because of the alawite betrayal of syria, the americans and israelis dared to attack iran for the second time. are the iranians really so stupid that they don’t see that the alawites who fled to russia are solely to blame for this? iran supplied drones to russia and russia should punish the traitorous alawites in return. either send them all to the front lines in ukraine or poison them or slaughter them and throw them into the oka river.
wtf u blame alawites? not their fault. it was assads complacency & comfortability. it was widespread poverty, unemployment & endemic hardship, pressure of western sanctions, occupation, israeli drone & airstrikes, deprivation of oil fields/theft. support of armed groups, terror organizations & destructive civil war, destroyed infrastructure & public utilities services.
everything they fought for has been thrown away, so the russians must act decisively, find all the alawites, from suhail al-hassan to maher and bashar al-assad, and kill them. they betrayed syria, fled to russia, and therefore must die. they did not fight, iraq is cut off from lebanon’s hezbollah, and iran has been attacked for the second time. if iranian schoolgirls cannot live, the traitorous alawites must die too.
looks like the emasculated 3,500+ years old persian foggot culture is about to be bent over and be gaped, and be jizzed and completely humiliated by don the senile con trump and big daddy netanyahu . fack ye@h. hehehe. i told you so.
zionists are worse than animals. and you are proof. uncle adolf was wrong on many things, but he got one thing right
no, he called europeans and russians for jews, and created this mess. and you do not even recognize how you are played nowadays by at least three adolfs. and many, many quislings.
the jew problem is real, every single goyim can agree on that
islam problem is the world’s problem
a dead mullah is a good mullah hahahaha
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adolf sam był żydem. zwalczał słowiańskie narody, polaków i rosjan. tak samo żyd beria, lenin. łącznie wybili ponad 30 milionów białych słowiańskich narodów.
z tym zydostwem adolfa to gowno prawda co do reszty zgoda. btw adolf mial tureckie geny.
islam are worse than rats . deleting ayatollah is the first step
a dead mullah is a good mullah hahahaha
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the iranians should demand that russia pay for the drones they supplied to russia, because it was thanks to these drones alone that russia gained a huge amount of ukrainian territory. considering that this is the second attack on iran in nine months, i think the blame is clear. the alawites are to blame, because they are traitors and cowards. the russians must find them and kill them.
first we’ve heard of you, and your simplistic ranting.
russia and china do nothing, only wait for smaller countries to get destroyed by the nazis. “us” should have be flattened to the ground hundreds of years ago. instead “the multipolar world” looks at trick movies about airplanes, and support mass murder in the hospitals. some things are so evil, that they should be erased from earth.
iran supplied russia with drones, but russia is a haven for traitorous alawites who have betrayed everything iran stood for.
russia must kill all alawites from assad to suhail al hass because these people are traitors and are responsible for this horror that has happened to iran for the second time in six months.
are you payed by cia ? as long as russia do not acknowledge the root cause, “us”, this will continue, and all kind of ethnicitys will kill each other, for them without ethnicity. it is russias policy, that are traitorous. pretend that the nazis do not exist. pretend that german nazis exported to palestine are jews.
with the trump’s crowd, mainland biological warfare would be a better alternative than kinetic nuclear warfare
hopefully they got pezeshikan too. that would be just desert for his pro-western overtures (and a lesson that will go over the head of the moscow manager).
getting rid of bum boy araghchi would seriously stymie pootie boy’s influence, and bolster iran’s security.
we all swallow hebrew jizz pay shekels to lick jew peniz
strangely, the most exact comment, for all that buy something out of “us” and “israel” 😂 they are one, no ethnicity, only genocide and destruction.
maybe with khamenei gone the iranian military will finally be able to assemble some nuclearwarheads and this whole 30 year drama will make more sense.
the russian army must pay the traitorous alawites and kill all traitors from suhail al hassan to bashar al assad and his brother maher al assad. without these traitors, syria would still provide a link between hezbollah and iraq. iran gave the drones to russia and russia must punish these traitors who committed this horrific betrayal. drones gave russia a huge amount of ukrainian territory and russia must pay iran for it. the only fair payment would be for russia to kill these traitor
no, it will make less sense. “nukes” do not exist, at least not before they wipe out the trick movie comedians, then they exist in a positive way. you think, that as longer the comedy last, as more people should doubt the einstein death cult. fouled in “moon landings”. fouled in “pandemic”. but “nukes” should be real ? then use them ! erase “us” !
the traitorous alawites fled to russia and that is why iran was attacked for the second time in six months. for the second time, they killed the iranian leadership.iran supplied russia with drones with which russia turned the tide of the war in ukraine and that is why putin must pay to iran. iran must demand that putin find and kill all the traitorous alawites in russia. either send them to fight in ukraine or poison them or throw them out of windows.
where is allah to help? it’s a big mess now.
the usual losers declaring victory right at the start of the fight. i predict that quite soon the americans will be crying uncle. but there won’t be any relief this time around.
easy prediction–death fearing americunt cowards sustain nothing—iran and allies will degrade them…us stockpiles already low due to donations to zelensky
all of the chain of events & conditions leading to today’s events is the fault of hamas. the large scale attack on israel gave them a chance & justification for mass retaliation, destruction, dismantling & displacement of the entire gaza strips population. the escalation of war on hezbo, syria, & the attacks on iran when it lost its deterrence capability.
iranians have to the most stupid people in human history as why did the old leader was still in his home along with his whole family? even a retarded child knew that the us and zionist genocidal criminals will kill khamenei and all the leaders. iran’s only hope is test a nuclear weapon.
he died like a rat
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relax. khamenei is now on same level as khomenei. he is martyr for the revolution. millions will rise up and die for him. zio swine have no idea what is coming to their precious properties. air force mafia have zero ground force potential. they cannot motivate real fighters to die for a cause. their cause is epstein pedo child fukking. nobody want to die for that.
khomeini is martyr in his own ass hahahahahah
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khamenei is a corpse resting in piss/shit in hell 🤡, “millions will die for him” maybe, every second a moron is born, but millions of iranians already died because of his, and his predecessor evil regimes 💩. “have no idea what is coming to their properties” the heads and corpses of the ayattollah all iranian criminals/public officials to be used as toilets. i’d pity iran, for being so pathetic and weak, if they weren’t so dumb 🤪
your woes are beginning after khamenei is laid to rest
you’re incredibly naive and stupid; it’s pathetic to listen to you. you sound like a mossad agent trying to hypnotize us with fairy tales. the only certainty is that as long as putin remains in charge of russia, the future for a multipolar world is very, very black.
hamas made a selfish & opportunistic decision even worse a fatal mistake & miscalculation to attack israel creating the conditions, chain of events, global support & sympathy, justification to use overwhelming force, retaliatory attacks & large scale military offensive to displace & destroy entire gaza strips population & infrastructure. hezbo made mistake of joining the conflict, not escalating, committing to using its full force & capabilities.
tylko, że ten atak hamasu to tak naprawdę zaplanowana akcja mossadu…
all hamas’ fault. we know. who instigated the hamas political venture, from their usual charity and societal role ? ?
the inbred polish mongrel , that’s who. such a clever rat..in fact, they’re all clever rats over there in palestine, in their air raid shelters.
hamas idiots less selfish than stupefied—sympathy doesn’t win anything except flowers on your grave
no i co z hezbollah? czemu siedzą nadal cicho? zapomnieli co mówili?
cia headquarter in dubai hit, on fire. kill the rats and cockroaches everywhere ! end the infection of the world by murderous jesuits ! they have murder or kidnapp a young girl in sweden, lisa holm, and the traitors immediately blame it in compass direction east. the criminals investigated them self, and waved with weapons, as in the charlie kirk spectacle.
allah is tired of the ayatollah so he turned him into an ayatoilet 😂😂😂
a dead mullah is a good mullah hahahaha
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your nightmare is not ending with khamenei. in fact, now nuclear ban can be finally lifted…mwahahahah
iran will get flattened 🔥 before their cave dwelling pedophile tribal healers manage to shit out an usable bomb.
sorry bro…iran is not flat like your mind. iran is zagros mountains where your most powerful bombs cannot penetrate granite rock under mountains. this is real superpower of mother earth. jews lose
what nuclear ? in your ass.
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where is jewish leadershits? flying over europe….hahahahahaha you fucking rat cowards
amazing news, next, we’ll learn how iran 🤢 has collapsed, along with all remaining evil regimes it supported, maduro, palestine, assad/syria… 😆 from victory to victory 🇮🇱, fuck around and find out, everyone who wished for israel destruction, will get/got destroyed instead 💀🥳
fuck around find out. as amerikunt bases and israeli diaper brigades are finding out
sorry drumpf can’t hear you he is busy writing letters to the families of dead soldiers that where hiding a hotel after leaving the base.
iran is much greater than israel. unlike israel, iran does not use parasite lobby groups to pimp free stuff from american tax payers. iran taking on both satans on its own and will never surrender. that is steel resolve
iran is much poorer* than… iran is taking a beating* on its own. iran is on the brink of collapse, a has-been, looks like hell, not the hazbin one, just poor, ugly and backwards.
the story of your miserable life since 1979 schlomo
i announce death of my senile transgender prez jo bribem 23 yrs ago
in bahrain, people celebrate destruction of ussa bases. in pakistan and iraq, people storm ussa embassy and hammering its windows and walls.you know what this means you zio scum? it means the beginning of the end of the amerikunt occupation
10 ussa bases hit already. more to come. wait until the ships start popping. i love the smell of desperate zionazis fucking around and finding out. fuel tanks for air refulers wiped out. radars wiped out. a glorious week coming for zio swine. buckle up, the amerikunt bases are going to be wiped like hillary’s server
iran announced only old missiles were used so far. newer variants and unreleased weapons are being saved for the juicy moments. today we see waves of anti amerikunt anti zionist protesters all over the region. this is the beginning of regional jihad against the zio swine. we are millions and millions remember. we know where ussa assets are. we know where the troops live. we have insiders in arab monarchies. kick legs of ussa first. then israel standing very wobbly, fear will come
quit ya impotent yapping 🤡🤪
if russia and china protect you, you know what to expect. then many world leaders will surely opt for multipolarity in the future. (i’m laughing so i don’t cry)