{"id":313791,"date":"2026-03-02T12:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=313791"},"modified":"2026-03-02T03:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T03:09:13","slug":"iran-confirms-khamenei-killed-in-us-israel-strikes-announces-40-day-mourning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/03\/iran-confirms-khamenei-killed-in-us-israel-strikes-announces-40-day-mourning\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Confirms Khamenei Killed In US-Israel Strikes, Announces 40-Day Mourning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_313792\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/khamenei-dead-iran-usa.avif\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-313792\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-313792\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/khamenei-dead-iran-usa-300x169.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/khamenei-dead-iran-usa-300x169.avif 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/khamenei-dead-iran-usa.avif 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-313792\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been confirmed dead by Iran. (AFP file photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><em>A photograph of Khamenei\u2019s body was shown to US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>1 Mar 2026\u00a0<\/em>&#8211;\u00a0Iran\u2019s state television has confirmed that Supreme Leader <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Ali Khamenei<\/span><\/span> was killed in recent strikes. The Iranian government also announced 40 days of mourning following the killing of Khamenei.<\/p>\n<p id=\"1\" class=\"story_para_1\">According Iranian media reports, Khamenei was killed in the early hours of Saturday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twtiframe\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=cnnnews18&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=2027920007783444926&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.news18.com%2Fworld%2Fsupreme-leader-ayatollah-khamenei-is-dead-irans-state-tv-9936054.html&amp;sessionId=9ec81d086131cc0bffe60544284a33fa57ffd455&amp;siteScreenName=cnnnews18&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"2027920007783444926\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-extracted-i1772375415949380406=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><em>Indeed, to God we belong and to Him we shall return.The Leader of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, Imam Khamenei, has been martyred. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3XI7i74pMi\"  rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/3XI7i74pMi<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Iran Military Monitor (@IRIran_Military) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IRIran_Military\/status\/2027920007783444926?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"  rel=\"nofollow\">March 1, 2026<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p data-start=\"333\" data-end=\"485\">Earlier reports said the body of Khamenei had been recovered following the Israeli-US strikes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"487\" data-end=\"682\">According to Israel\u2019s Channel 12, a photograph of Khamenei\u2019s body was shown to US President <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Donald Trump<\/span><\/span> and Israeli Prime Minister <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"487\" data-end=\"682\">Following the Khamenei\u2019s killling, Iranian National Security Council said Khamenei\u2019s killing will be the launchpad for a great uprising against the tyrants.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"684\" data-end=\"866\">Public broadcaster Kan reported that senior Israeli officials had been informed of Khamenei\u2019s \u201celimination&#8221; and that his body was recovered from the rubble of his compound in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"912\" data-end=\"1093\">Reports said several members of Khamenei\u2019s family were also killed in the strikes that began on Saturday morning, including his daughter, grandchild, daughter-in-law and son-in-law.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1095\" data-end=\"1297\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Iran\u2019s Defence Minister <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Aziz Nasirzadeh<\/span><\/span> and the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Mohammad Pakpour<\/span><\/span>, were also reported killed in the strikes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1095\" data-end=\"1297\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/world\/supreme-leader-ayatollah-khamenei-is-dead-irans-state-tv-9936054.html\" >Go to Original &#8211; news18.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Mar 2026\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0A photograph of Khamenei\u2019s body was shown to US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":313792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[417,100,3281,950,742,88,3925,767,475,2571,3924,818,1190,2159,880,99,249,2200,70,481,886],"class_list":["post-313791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spotlight","tag-bullying","tag-direct-violence","tag-evil-empire","tag-invasion","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-khamenei","tag-middle-east","tag-netanyahu","tag-official-lies-and-narratives","tag-peace-hoax","tag-proxy-war","tag-regime-change","tag-rogue-states","tag-state-terrorism","tag-structural-violence","tag-trump","tag-us-empire","tag-usa","tag-warfare","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313793,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313791\/revisions\/313793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}