Trump Says Iran’s Supreme Leader Is Dead
The president’s announcement came after a day of U.S. and Israeli military strikes, and after he pledged to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program and overthrow its government.
By Aaron Boxerman, Tyler Pager, Farnaz Fassihi, Ronen Bergman and Richard Pérez-Peña, NY Times
President Trump announced on Saturday that the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran had killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the nation’s supreme leader for almost 37 years and an implacable enemy of Israel and the United States, in a potentially seismic political shift in Tehran and the broader region.
“Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social. There was no immediate confirmation from the Iranian government.


