{"id":5149,"date":"2026-03-01T03:55:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=5149"},"modified":"2026-03-01T03:56:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:56:39","slug":"iran-confirms-supreme-leade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=5149","title":{"rendered":"Iran confirms Supreme Leade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"170\">Iranian state TV confirmed that Supreme Leader <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/span><\/span> was<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"170\">k!lled in joint US-Israeli strikes, announcing a 40-day national mourning period.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"172\" data-end=\"683\">The confirmation followed earlier reports by Tasnim and Mehr that Khamenei had remained \u201csteadfast and firm in commanding the field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"172\" data-end=\"683\">Later, US President <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Donald Trump<\/span><\/span> stated on Truth Social that the 86-year-old leader was k!lled in strikes that began Saturday.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"172\" data-end=\"683\">\u201cHe was unable to avoid our Intelligence and Highly Sophisticated Tracking Systems and,<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"172\" data-end=\"683\">working closely with Israel, there was not a thing he, or the other leaders that have been k!lled along with him, could do,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"685\" data-end=\"805\">Israeli Prime Minister <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/span><\/span> had earlier pointed to \u201cgrowing signs\u201d of Khamenei\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"807\" data-end=\"956\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Although Iran had contingency plans in case of his assassination, his death adds uncertainty to a conflict already raising fears of wider escalation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian state TV confirmed that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was k!lled in joint US-Israeli strikes, announcing a 40-day national mourning period. The confirmation followed earlier reports by Tasnim and Mehr that Khamenei had remained \u201csteadfast and firm in commanding the field.\u201d Later, US President Donald Trump stated on Truth Social that the 86-year-old leader&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5153,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions\/5153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}