This is a developing story. More to follow very soon.
EDIT 1
Supreme Ayatollah Khamenei was killed a few moments ago, a senior Israeli official told journalists off the record.
Footage of Khamenei’s body was allegedly presented to Prime Minister Netanyahu a few minutes ago. No official statement has been published.
EDIT 2
Videos in Farsi published on social media show some people cheering in Tehran from their apartments.
https://x.com/ManotoNews/status/2027835583146463736
These videos are not authentified. They could very well be true or AI.
EDIT 3
Headline of Maariv newspaper is now “Khamenei is killed”
“After decades of absolute rule, Israel confirms that the end of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has come”
EDIT 4
Reuters says Khamenei has been killed according to an Israeli official.
Iran DENIES the information and says Ayatollah Khamenei is fully in command.
https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-crisis-live-explosions-tehran-israel-announces-strike-2026-02-28/
EDIT 6
Some Iranian opposition accounts are celebrating.
Association of French-Iranian women says “YES, Finally”
https://x.com/femmeazadi/status/2027836456119443519
Iranian Sana Ebrahimi published video of herself dancing
https://x.com/__Injaneb96/status/2027841112610676910
EDIT 7
Politician Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Canadian Opposition, claims Ayatollah Khamenei is killed
https://x.com/PierrePoilievre/status/2027845628391526774
EDIT 8
I̶D̶F̶ ̶c̶o̶n̶f̶i̶r̶m̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶d̶e̶a̶t̶h̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶K̶h̶a̶m̶e̶n̶e̶i̶
The IDF said several Iranian leaders are killed, including the Defense Minister and Ali Shamkhani, the closest advisor of the Ayatollah
EDIT 9
Iranian Researcher Khosrol Isfahani published videos of people honking in the streets on social media
https://x.com/KhosroIsfahani/status/2027839875500912833
EDIT 10
Donald Trump told NBC News that he feels reports about the death of Khamenei are correct.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-responds-reports-ayatollah-death-rcna261149
EDIT 11
Iran International, the largest Iranian political opposition network, says Ayatollah Khamenei have been killed according to their own sources.
https://x.com/IranIntl_En/status/2027846843061633455
https://www.iranintl.com/fa/liveblog/20260228-Iranwar
EDIT 12
A french far-left politician who was questioned by police about her support for Hamas-Hezbollah just published a burning american flag. She really mad.
EDIT 13
Farnaz Fassihi, an iranian-american journalist, says she spoke on the phone with her sources in Tehran
Many people are celebrating but she says the information is NOT confirmed.
🚨 New York Times claims Trump confirms
EDIT 14
Official statement from the White House.
IT’S OVER FOLKS !!!
Personal opinion
He was instrumental in helping Bachar El Assad massacre Syrians after the 2011 Arab Spring. The Iranian military saved Bachar by slaughtering countless
He was the daddy of Hezbollah. Hezbollah assasinated countless Lebanese politicians who spoke out against the group. Khamenei urged Hezbollah to trigger two major wars against Israel (2006, 2023). The overwhelming majority of Lebanese DID NOT want these wars. The response was absolutely devastating for ordinary lebanese. Khamenei was laughing from Tehran while Lebanese paid the price.
He was an enemy of the Ukrainian people. At the beginning of the Ukraine invasion, he gave thousands of drones to Vladimir Poutine. Drones are used to bomb Ukrainian cities
And perhaps the most sadly, he was an enemy of the Iranian people. His men slaughtered countless Iranian protesters. As for the survivors, they were tortured and raped.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde13/7480/2023/en/
That dude was just evil. If anyone had it coming, it was him.
Let’s hope that this bloody war ends now.
“Lets hope this bloody war ends now.”
Hahahahahahah. No chance.
I’m glad he’s dead, I’m sad how it happened. Foreign bombs against a religious and political leader don’t make for a stable transition of power, they result in decades of war between rebels in the mountains and whoever controls the cities.
No love for this dude, but this won’t end here.
Not like we’ve been here before. Surly there won’t be blowback from this.
War will likely continue for now, and he has nominated his successor.
However, eventually a power struggle may start (it’s not guaranteed) and then, Iranian people may get their foot between the door and force it open.
I’m sure there will be a quick and peaceful transfer of power to a completely democratic leadership and no civilian casualties whatsoever.
Given the viciousness and the firepower both US and Israel can bring to bare, it’s very possible they killed him.
Also possible they’re just announcing this to further domestic unrest. If Khamenei doesn’t stick his head out to announce he’s alive, it will be that much easier to flip generals or city leaders who think they’ll need to surrender in order to survive.
Videos in Farsi published on social media show some people cheering in Tehran
“We’ll be greeted as liberators”
No shortage of people in Iran who hate the Ayatollah. But it’s unlikely you’ll find folks under active bombardment feeling in the mood to cheer at any news.
Flip to what, though?
Iran was built to be redundant, and the protest movement is just a protest movement, to date. This isn’t going to be a clean transition to a different united regime.
Flip to what, though?
Reza Pahlavi appears to be the current useful idiot of the West
He’s about as prepared to run Iran as I am. Well, I guess he speaks the language at least. It’s not like you get one guy people don’t hate and just plug them in, though.
Who does have organisation and some support is the IRGC and the normal military. And probably all kinds of paramilitary movements on the peripheries. If Trump was going to send in troops and occupy it on the ground, they could try to slap together a shitty government of misfits like in Iraq, but he’s not.
I guess he doesn’t have to have many qualifications here. He just has to be prepared to sell all their oil to their glorious liberators at discount rates.
Then if China want any oil, they’ll have to come begging to Trump for it.
Including a statement from Pierre Poilievre means that the news doesn’t matter.
If you’re going to include the opinions of people who can’t even win their own seat from countries who are across an ocean from Iran, there are plenty of others who are relevant.
the fuck is PP giving statements for? fucker still doesn’t have security clearance. He’s got about as much knowledge on what’s really going on as I do.
If this is true it would make IRGC even more united and furious I hope they kill netanyahu in retaliation
And Fascist 47 while we’re at it.
Everything is still kind of unverified, but it sounds like they may have got a significant portion of the IRGC leadership too.
The popular voice right now seems to be the crown prince of the former Iranian monarchy.
The issue is this is all western propaganda. We can only judge by Iran’s response, and since they’re making a cohesive military counterattack by bombing US Bases, we can see the country hasn’t lost its leadership.
Trump attacking Iran is not going to go well. I believe Iran will win and the US will have wasted resources. Most importantly, the Iranians have closed the Strait of Hormuz.
that asshole can go fuck himself
Basically because there’s no obvious uniting figure, so they go with somebody irrelevant and inoffensive.
The US has opened a huge can of worms they have no interest in actually managing. This is going to be Syria but bigger and in an economically significant area.
How? They don’t have a powerful secret service
“The bombings will continue until peace is achieved” is one of the craziest things I’ve ever heard Trump say, and that is saying a lot
The thing about precedent is that it sets a precedent.
So will the US and Israel wait and see what ends up filling the power vacuum they just created or will they just go right to installing a new, pro US/Israel regime themselves?
They’re going to restore the Pahlavis.
Won’t believe until corroborated by both sides.
I was hoping to see the Iranians throw him off a balcony but this is good enough.
Too bad, I’m sure Assad was looking forward to meeting his new roommate.
Good riddance.
Now this will get out of control
