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
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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 !!!
Anyone celebrating this, you HAVE to understand that the US and Israel did NOT do this because it was what the Iranian people wanted, they did it because it was what THEY want. Whether this will actually be good or bad for the Iranian people makes absolutely no difference to the US and Israel. They don’t care about the Iranian people, they don’t respect the Iranian people. This was a selfish act on the part of the US and Israel, not a selfless one.
Khamenei was a monster. It doesn’t matter how or why he’s dead. Good riddance, may he burn in hell for an eternity.
It doesn’t matter whether a monster is killed by someone with noble intentions or a monster is killed by another monster. Either way there’s one less monster in the world.
It doesn’t matter whether a monster is killed by someone with noble intentions or a monster is killed by another monster.
It does matter. It matters. And it’s so, so important that people understand that it matters. This attitude of, “the ends justify the means,” is very dangerous. The Iranian nation has had their autonomy taken away from them, first by Khamenei and now by the US and Israel. They are powerless, subject to the whims of people more powerful than them. They don’t make their own decisions about their own nation, the decisions are made for them by people who have enough guns and strongmen to impose their will on them.
Edit: think of it like this: let’s say you’re living down the street from a family with an abusive father. The guy is just cruel to his wife and kids. So one day you decide to take matters into your own hands and you go and shoot the dad dead. That’s good, right? The cruel, abusive father is dead, so it’s good and justified, right? But you didn’t ask the wife or the kids if they wanted their father to be killed. You didn’t care what they wanted, because you didn’t do it for them. You did it for you. You did it because it was what YOU wanted. And if they get mad at you for it, you say oh they’re just ingrates. They don’t appreciate what I did for THEM. But, it wasn’t for them. It was never for them. It was for you.
Edit 2: so what would the alternative be? What could we do to stop this cruel father that doesn’t require us to take matters into our own hands? Law. We need the rule of law. What would any reasonable person in a modern society do in this situation? They’d call the police. That’s what we need: the rule of law. Not countries deciding unilaterally who lives and who dies, but laws. Laws that apply to all of us, equally.
The Iranian nation has had their autonomy taken away from them, first by Khamenei and now by the US and Israel.
Are you saying they got their autonomy back in the last month after that asshole executed 30,000 people? Pretty sure they didn’t have autonomy for quite a few decades now. They have slim chance to take it back. The odds are the IRGC will hold onto control, but it’s ridiculous to imply they somehow lost autonomy twice. You either got it or you don’t and with the IRGC around they don’t have autonomy.
In you’re little analogy is the abusive dad always saying he wants to kill me and was handing out guns to people in the neighbourhood, telling them to take shots at me, which resulted in one of my kids getting killed? Then the abusive dad starts putting together a bazooka, all the while saying he’s going to kill me?
Your analogy kinda sucks. The abusive person is up to all kinds of shit in the neighbourhood and gets himself killed. If he was abusing his family and not going out into the neighbourhood and causing shit, he probably wouldn’t have gotten killed. But he’d still be a shitbag.
The wife and kids may or may not be upset by him getting killed, but I wouldn’t expect anyone in the neighbourhood to stick up for an abuser like you currently seem to be doing. Very bizarre to attempt of some analogy to be all “think of the children” over a guy that was such a terrible person.
Pretty sure they didn’t have autonomy for quite a few decades now.
That’s true. The Iranian nation hasn’t had its own autonomy for some time. I didn’t mean to imply otherwise.
In you’re little analogy is the abusive dad always saying he wants to kill me and was handing out guns to people in the neighbourhood, telling them to take shots at me, which resulted in one of my kids getting killed? Then the abusive dad starts putting together a bazooka, all the while saying he’s going to kill me?
I mean, if you want to expand the analogy, let’s talk about how the neighborhood vigilante has been interfering in the affairs of the family of the abusive father, long before the abusive father was even in power. Like in 1951 when the family’s parliament voted to nationalize their oil industry and as a result the vigilante and his old friend helped carry out a coup of the family’s democratically elected prime minister (operation Ajax), and replaced him with an autocrat. Or in 1980 when the vigilante aided another abusive dad, a fella by the name of Saddam Hussein, in his invasion of the home of the abusive father and his family. An invasion and war that resulted in half a million deaths, and that Hussein guy using chemical weapons against the poor family.
It’s dishonest to talk only of the crimes of the abusive father but not acknowledge the crimes of vigilante. And that’s the thing about vigilantism: answering crimes with crimes is not a viable or moral solution. It’s lawlessness and chaos, and a self perpetuating cycle of violence.
Very bizarre to attempt of some analogy to be all “think of the children” over a guy that was such a terrible person.
Well, that terrible person is dead. Now what? You gonna take care of those kids? Or are you just going to wait until another abusive father comes and takes the places of the one you just killed?
We don’t need to mourn the monster killed by monsters, but we SHOULD remember that even in this short time many innocents have also been killed in the process.
We should also remember the many many many innocents killed by the monster that now lays dead.
Both can be true and the act does not need to be selfless to be good.
I can’t believe there are people dumb enough that this needs to be pointed out, but yes, a thousand times yes. Upvote for visibility.
I think this is obvious. We’re talking about a geopolitical war here. All the parties are looking exclusively looking to advance their own interests. That being said, I think we can criticize Israel and the US for attacking Iran for the way that they did, but also celebrate the deaths of this evil bastard as well as stand with the Iranian people who want their country back.
they did it because it was what THEY want
- Oil. Iran is said to be producing the same amount as Iraq.
- Ensure that Yahoo would then expel all those are potential threats to his lebensraum plan. Yeah, Yahoo’s Israel is what North Korea is for Russia: the mouse that roars.
- Make the Christofascist supporters happy as if this offensive action is “the mandate of God”.
Now and infuriatingly Trump has achieved infamy as the worst generator of anxiety in history.
Furthermore, even if you, perhaps understandably, aren’t a big fan of the concept of a Theocratic supreme leader, your personal feelings on that fact are really beside the point.
For better or worse, Iran has been the one of only countries on the world stage to materially support Palestinian resistance, and opposed Israeli expansionism.
You can’t support the Palestinian cause and cheer on this war/the death of the Ayatollah. Certainly not before there’s a free and unified Palestine, anyway.
Who the fuck cares, Iranians finally got justice after decades of abuse and poverty
Libya should demonstrate that things can in fact get worse
The Iranians have not gotten justice. I don’t need convincing that he was a bad dude, but his death doesn’t cement freedom, and imo the attacks reduce stability and prosperity for Iranians.
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.
yeah this has never gone wrong ever
We just killed the dude that killed the dude we put in power after killing a fourth dude. Fucking circus of circles.
Hopefully there’s a focused retaliation against trump and his family/holdings personally. Take him and his spawn out, do the world a favour.
How fantastic would it be if elites just assassinated each other.
Just throw them all into a thunder dome
Uh… they tried that already?
No, a global superpower has not tried to assassinate trump
Iran has tried to assassinate Trump.
What should some other country should try to avenge the Ayatollah on his behalf? Guy was a piece of shit, why would anyone do that?
That piece of shit had followers, this isnt over. Expect attacks within the US now, this is gonna get ugly. Im Canadian im just mad we’re gonna take fire by proxy, the ayatollah is indeed terrible, but we’re not into policing what the other side of the planet is up to. The Americans love to do that, and when their own country is a shit show it’s a joke they’re trying to take a more stance.
In the end this is all a distraction from Epstein anyways
There already has been a mass shooting in Texas done by someone with an “Iranian themed” shirt on.
And someone shot up an Iranian owned gym in Toronto, the owner of which was an activist against the Ayatollah. No one was there, no injuries. That guy isn’t cowering in fear of the Ayatollah, so why are you?
Nobody is cowering in fear dummy. In the end the biggest terrorist nation on earth is yours. And all your colonial ancestors. Im just one of the many coloured folk you tried to genocide. All this war and madness is on every single American, every American should be considered a terrorist and a criminal. And actually that guy in the gym did flee the ayatollah so…
But in the end im kinda happy. You Americans love to bring war and murder to other nations, it’s time war came to your lands
Edit: you’re last comment refers to “the Jews” and a bunch of other horrendously racist shit, followed by homophobic comments, holy fuck dude, I think your white robes are ready at the dry cleaners. I bet you refer to black people as “the blacks”
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.
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 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 beatings will continue until morale improves.
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/sorta like 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.
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.
Hell no, we still got more ordinance that is expiring.
Hezbollah
I… think you’re mixing him up with the other guy. Hesbollah have been around since before he was in charge.
If only countries targeted only the politicians and avoided killing civillians.
“one of the most evil people in history is dead” says the pedophile president.
Good outcome, still illegal as fuck.
The funny thing I’ve been reading / seeing is that the paralympics are still ongoing.
The Olympic truce says no one will start a war during the 7 days before the Olympics and for 7 days after the Paralympics finish.
The US and Israel should be banned by the IOC from competing at the 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games (even though the host country is the US).
It won’t happen though.
And of course the Trump administration/CIA already has his replacement lined up, and ready to install just like they did in Venezuela.
A good outcome would be if we could just get rid of all authoritarians instead of being offered this fucked up scale of “how evil is your authoritarian leader,” based on raw number of protestors murdered, unfair elections, and unjustified detentions (so far).
Instead, we’re supposed to be dumb enough to believe rank on this fucked up scale “justifies” another authoritarian overthrowing a regime with zero notice to their own government and completely ignoring rules of procedure, in the name of “freedom and democracy.” Oh, and they do it in the same week we found out they’re putting together an executive order to cancel our upcoming elections that could possibly take down their regime…
It’s like having two families, each with their own mentally unstable and abusive parent, (plus your parent’s dickhead boyfriend and all of his kids he’s doing a shitty job of parenting). Your shitty parent gets in a fight with another shitty parent over who is the worse parent. Then your parent and their dickhead boyfriend, murder the other parent in front of you and all the other kids. Clearly, they have absolutely no intention of doing anything to actually help the kids of the parent they just murdered, and are planning to loot their pockets after murdering them.
But for some reason, we (as in all the kids that just witnessed exactly what happen) shouldn’t worry about what comes next, because our “rockstar” parent has already arranged for “some guy” to take the kids in the other family, whether they like it or not. You know, because “democracy.”
We’re supposed to pretend from this day forward, that our collective memory of watching our insane narcissistic parent murdering somebody with their shady boyfriend Israel, after months of hearing them threaten to do it, is that our parent was the good guy who just did what needed to be done.
Because if we don’t pretend they’re a fucking hero, our insane authoritarian parent will give us something to cry about.
Nice. Every time a dictator dies I celebrate - simple.
Why is OP mentioning Rima Hassan though? French left has been criticizing every international interference illegal in regards to NATO directives.
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Too bad, I’m sure Assad was looking forward to meeting his new roommate.
Could they kill Putin inside his bunker? Would be nice 👍
