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 !!!
The guy who raped and killed children and possibly ate babies with his besties Jefferey Epstein and Ghisline Maxwell said that the Ayatollah was one of the most evil men in history? I’m skeptical
Wtf has happened.
The internet has become much worse. Iran is the most important thing happening. But take reddit for example. There seems to be a moderation effort to eliminate multiple discussions and funnel everyone and everything into these single chats. Does that bother anyone else?
Back in the day there would be multiple discussions so many views and opinions. Multiple conversations created momentum and insight. Each iteration improved on the last with information and then there was a single thread that could link to multiple threads. It now seems like that’s all gone. Everything is sanitized. I scrolled through some homepages even here on lemmy and it’s like
lame joke,
cat posts,
dumb meme,
angry post about Hollywood,
ww3 breaking out mega thread,
cat video,
trumps a butt head,
video game
video game.
Is this our world now. The most important thing is moderated into a drawer so we can get back to the paying a cat tax and being silly guys. What the fuck is going on. I feel like I’m losing my god damn mind.
You aren’t alone, but yeah, take a break
I did. For a while it only got worse and seems like the leftist i was a part of have become just really pitiful sad lumps. Like they really focused on “cat playing piano” part of the internet but ignored the rest. The rest was too confrontational for them. The leftist i left were watching liveleak videos and laughing their asses off.
Could they kill Putin inside his bunker? Would be nice 👍
If only countries targeted only the politicians and avoided killing civillians.
Nice. Every time a dictator dies I celebrate - simple.
There had to be one upside to all the horrors.
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.
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.
Both can be true and the act does not need to be selfless to be good.
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.
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.
Who the fuck cares, Iranians finally got justice after decades of abuse and poverty
“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
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.
Hezbollah
I… think you’re mixing him up with the other guy. Hesbollah have been around since before he was in charge.
“Lets hope this bloody war ends now.”
Hahahahahahah. No chance.
Hell no, we still got more ordinance that is expiring.
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.
Yeah nothing would be different of they just took him like Maduro and just took him to an island well off the coast of the us and put him out to pasture. Just drop a box of food every so often and make sure he stays there and no visits other than close family. No need for the killing and setting a perfect example how not to drop down to the same level as him.
Let him pray the day away for the rest of his life without hurting anybody.
I was thinking more the full Wilhelm. A perfectly acceptable safe life where he never has to work again but with no political power ever again. Is it fair? Fuck no. But it respects national sovereignty and it works to establish a norm that tyrants can safely step down if they create a democratic republic before it turns into a war. After? Well, then you have to negotiate for your life. You have to give them an opportunity out. I hate tyranny more than tyrants.
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?
That was the guy that was super against developing nukes.
Good thing Israel killed him. /s
Yes, the supreme leader of Iran stated he was opposed to developing nuclear weapons in 2003. The supreme leader then did not proceed to authorize two decades of an Iranian nuclear weapons program, a nuclear weapons program the West has not been negotiating about with Iran under his supreme leadership, a nuclear weapons program which was not bombed out last year, because of course it didn’t exist. /Sarcasm
having nuclear technology and nuclear enrichment is not the same thing as a nuclear weapons program. This comment sounds like Netanyahu. What are the chances Israel has nuclear weapons?
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.
Good riddance.
No love for this dude, but this won’t end here.
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
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.
