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Printed On 28 Feb 2026
Iran’s Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed in Israeli-US assaults, in line with Israeli media stories and a senior Israeli official.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed there have been “rising indicators” that Khamenei was killed within the joint US-Israeli strikes, which have been launched early on Saturday.
The Reuters information company, citing a senior Israeli official, reported on Saturday that Khamenei’s physique has been situated.
However Iran’s Tasnim and Mehr information companies reported Khamenei remained “steadfast and agency in commanding the sector”.
In what seemed to be a response to the claims, the pinnacle of public relations at Khamenei’s workplace accused the nation’s enemies of “psychological warfare”.
“The enemy is resorting to psychological warfare, all needs to be conscious,” the general public relations official was quoted as saying by Iranian state media.
Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Tohid Asadi stated there has to this point been no official affirmation from Tehran.
He famous that Iranian International Minister Abbas Araghchi instructed NBC Information that “so far as I do know” Iran’s Supreme Chief, in addition to different high Iranian officers remained in good well being.
US President Donald Trump instructed NBC Information in an interview that he believed stories of Khamenei’s loss of life have been a “right story”
Saturday’s strikes on Iran focused 24 provinces, killing at the very least 201 individuals, in line with Iranian media stories, citing the Pink Crescent.
Iran responded with a wave of counter assaults, focusing on Israel and US navy property throughout the Center East.
Netanyahu stated in his handle that many “senior figures” had been “eradicated” within the wave of navy strikes focusing on senior leaders as Trump referred to as for the federal government to be toppled.
Israel, he stated, had killed “commanders within the Revolutionary Guards and senior officers within the nuclear programme”. “And we’ll proceed,” he stated.
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