Source: Agencies
Saturday 28 February 2026 21:50:08
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in Israeli, U.S. strikes, senior Israeli official told Reuters on Saturday.
The information was also confirmed by Israeli media outlets.
U.S. President Donald Trump said that Khamenei is dead, describing him as “one of the most evil people in History.”
“This is not only Justice for the people of Iran, but for all Great Americans, and those people from many Countries throughout the World, that have been killed or mutilated by Khamenei and his gang of bloodthirsty THUGS,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post, adding that other regime leaders were killed as well.
Iran has yet to confirm reports of the Supreme Leader’s death.
Israel's Channel 12 news reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was shown an image of the body of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, after it was recovered by Iranian authorities from his compound in Tehran.
According to an unsourced report by Channel 12, the operation involved the dropping of around 30 bombs on Khamenei’s compound. The report said Khamenei was underground at the time but not inside one of the two deepest bunkers, which it said only specialized U.S. munitions could penetrate. Satellite imagery circulating online appeared to show the compound largely destroyed.