Live: Khamenei's body has been found and he is confirmed dead, Israeli official says

[LiberalArkie]

Source: Reuters

Live: Khamenei's body has been found and he is confirmed dead, Israeli official says

Iranian news agencies say Khamenei 'commanding the field'

Iranian news agencies Tasnim and Mehr reported that the Supreme Leader was "steadfast and firm in commanding the field" after an Israeli official told Reuters Khamenei had been killed and his body had been found.

US believes Iran's Khamenei is dead, Fox News reports

14:26 CST
The United States believes Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and five to 10 top Iranian leaders were killed in an initial Israeli strike, a Fox News reporter said on Saturday, citing a U.S. official.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-crisis-live-explosions-tehran-israel-announces-strike-2026-02-28/

[2naSalit]

1. Waiting for...

A trustworthy source, that's not going to be israel.

[orangecrush]

14. Same

[Skittles]

36. you got THAT right

they're as disgusting as our GOP

[Walleye]

2. So are we great again?

Did the killing give Trump a hard on?

[D. Spaulding]

7. I'm thinking that in his aged state of electile dysfunction,

those days are over.

[The Madcap]

30. 2" worth...

According to Stormy.

[Coldwater]

3. Iran denies Israel's Claim that the supreme leader is dead.

Iran claims he's alive and well, although I have my doubts about him being WELL since he's been near-death riddled with cancer for the past few years.

[Traildogbob]

4. Fox News reports

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. Well there ya go. The war is over and our military can come home. And we can focus on Epstein rapes and the elections.
Good job Browny. Hard to ID browny, all GQP noses are caked with cheese berder shit. From
Mc”Donald”s. Gotta have his name plastered everywhere.
The burger chain should be known as McEpstein’s, home of the double pedi patty.

[llmart]

15. His truth social post tonight will be updated...

to say he has now solved 9 wars single handedly!!!!!

[Traildogbob]

17. He will certainly create more to end.

His playbook. Break shit and claim ya fixed it. But people die in his little game. More cost of freedom. Except the freedoms he single handedly ends for suckers.

[Sneederbunk]

5. I see the Abraham Lincoln carrier is in the Mideast.

But do they still have that banner?

[Bengus81]

28. Maybe Bush has it in his garage......

[dem4decades]

6. And now we will get reports for years we've gotten the #2 guy.

[AverageOldGuy]

8. I think experience shows us . . .

. . . that if we knock of one fiendish, murderous Supreme Leader, he is replaced by one who is worse.

[LiberalArkie]

9. I think that if he is dead, probably one of his group did it.

[Traildogbob]

18. That scenario applies to us

As well. Fox has an endless lineup to fill the void
Wait until we start getting News Max appointees.

[Vinca]

10. Israel sure is acting faster on this than they did back on that October day when their citizens called for help.

[tazcat]

27. Ya, didn't it take 8-10 hrs.to respond??? Hmmm....

[Javaman]

11. And that means nothing

They are set up so if the big dude is dead, another will fill his shoes right away.

It’s like killing a hydra, chop off one head, two appear.

What a colossal cluster fuck of circular firing squad of circle jerks

[underpants]

16. Same boss.... The successor will have to be brutal to suppress dissent

I saw an article here earlier about the CIA’s own assessment that Khomeini’s successor will be hard hard line and likely from the Republican Guard.

This is from the Daily Mail but it’s the best I could find quickly


However, while Mojtaba is a powerful and hardline figure in the background, he has never held government office.

Experts believe an increasing possibility is a takeover by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) - leading to a military rather than clerical form of government.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15602185/The-Ayatollahs-replace-Khamenei-chilling-scenario-make-Iran-dangerous.html

[Javaman]

19. So from a theocracy to a military religious junta

Lovely

[underpants]

22. Shia is a family business as you probably know

Shia Imams have to be of the Muhammad blood line (as it’s established). Family businesses often have a “Jr” and the other kids no one is sure why they are there.

Iran is like the Berlin Wall. It’s only a matter of time. Anyone under 50 (slightly younger than me) doesn’t remember the Revolution other than what they had drilled in their heads at school and, at this point, don’t care at all. They want blue jeans and rock n roll which is what really broke down The Wall*. Beatles & Rolling Stone albums were grooved into X-ray film so they could be snuck into Soviet Russia, often listened to in churches. The kids KNEW something was going on and they were missing it. They can’t travel. They have no access to the international banking system so they can’t order from Alibaba. Their internet and commerce is completely internal. There was a reporter my wife told me about earlier today (BBC/CNN/?) who said they had a lot of cash and they were headed out away from urban centers in Iran. Our cards don’t work there either. They are shut off and they are sick of it.

*that comes from a former G. I. I met in Germany. He worked on the General Services- Transportation Dept. Work was being done right up against the Wall. Tools were left leaning against the Wall. Bars started spilling out and someone, one guy, picked up a sledgehammer or pict axe and started going at it. Others joined. The German cops didn’t want to join in on a bunch of drunk Germans so it kept going.

[Bengus81]

29. They get zero credit for bringing the wall down,it all goes to Saint Ronnie which is BS

as has been for what 41 years?

[lonely bird]

34. I don't know

Freedom is equally undefinable and equally universally unattainable.

The examples of Europe do not arbitrarily apply since Europe is where colonialism sprang from. To borrow from Parke Godwin in The Snake Oil Wars “people like you, Helm, can never kneel to the cross without your knee on someone’s neck”. For far too many freedom has to come at someone else’s expense. The power holders do not relinquish power easily or willingly. The power seekers are too often ready to spill blood without being able to control it and the charlatan always awaits. Sometimes it goes well albeit never smoothly. Too often it goes poorly and the way disintegrates into chaos.

[COL Mustard]

21. That's quite a descriptive sentence!

"What a colossal cluster fuck of circular firing squad of circle jerks"

[generalbetrayus]

12. ♫ Here's to the new boss/Same as the old boss! ♫

[orangecrush]

13. Sorry

Don't believe anything Netanyahu says.

[LiberalArkie]

23. Bibi's problem is that he stays out of jail as long as Israel is at war. I think The Don feels that he is in the same

position.

[orangecrush]

26. I think you're right

[LiberalArkie]

31. How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/magazine/benjamin-netanyahu-gaza-war.html

Snip
But for Netanyahu, a truce also came with personal risk. As prime minister, he led a fragile coalition that depended on the support of far-right ministers who wanted to occupy Gaza, not withdraw from it. They sought a long war that would ultimately enable Israel to re-establish Jewish settlements in Gaza. If a cease-fire came too soon, these ministers might decide to collapse the ruling coalition. That would prompt early elections that polls showed Netanyahu would lose. Out of office, Netanyahu was vulnerable. Since 2020, he had been standing trial for corruption; the charges, which he denied, mostly related to granting favors to businessmen in exchange for gifts and favorable media coverage. Shorn of power, Netanyahu would lose the ability to force out the attorney general who oversaw his prosecution — as indeed his government would later attempt to do.

[flashman13]

20. The big take away here is that national leaders are now fair game. That does include Trump and Bibi.

So far the Iranian retaliation is fairly low key. I would not expect it to stay that way.

[slightlv]

24. Oh, yes... I believe they will retaliate.

For them, it's not instantaneous... they will plan even for years. And then find someone like Putin will help them carry it out. Putin has already ruined our country, tho. WE are the Iran of the N. American continent. I would much rather these old men do it old style... let the armies line up behind them on the battlefield... then let the leaders of the world who want to fight it out, fight it out... leave the kids alone there in the back lines. If rulers want war over resources, insults, etc., then let THEM fight it out themselves and leave the rest of us alone to live our lives.

[flashman13]

25. Well said.

[Tarc]

32. Regardless of anything to do with trump, there's nothing bad about the Ayatollah being snuffed

This is a big crack in the primary financier of Hezbollah and Hamas.

[Skittles]

35. yeah because no one could possibly take his place

[turbinetree]

33. Maybe the "guy" that took classified documents will show them in the bathroom with him sitting the commode

with a Red/ White hat on that says I got him ..........................since he likes to wear hats and use them as a bragging tool...............when he commits sending American Troops to do his bidding..............JFC..............

[RetiredParatrooper]

37. Not sorry they nailed him

Or Qasem Soleimani either.