{"id":67649,"date":"2026-02-28T18:56:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/ayatollah-ali-khamenei-killed-by-missile-strike-on-iran-says-donald-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T18:56:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:56:46","slug":"ayatollah-ali-khamenei-killed-by-missile-strike-on-iran-says-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/ayatollah-ali-khamenei-killed-by-missile-strike-on-iran-says-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei killed by missile strike on Iran, says Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president posts on Truth Social that Iran\u2019s supreme leader, \u2018one of the most evil people in History, is dead\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/feb\/28\/israel-attacks-iran-as-blasts-heard-in-tehran-live-updates\">US-Israel war on Iran: Donald Trump says Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead \u2013 latest reports<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ali Khamenei has been killed in the opening salvo of a regime change war launched on Saturday by the US and Israel, Donald Trump has claimed. <\/p>\n<p> The US president announced the death of the ayatollah, who has ruled Iran as supreme leader since 1989, in a post on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cKhamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was unable to avoid our Intelligence and Highly Sophisticated Tracking Systems and, working closely with Israel, there was not a thing he, or the other leaders that have been killed along with him, could do.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> Trump said that the goal of the military campaign, which began on Saturday morning with a barrage of missiles and airstrikes, was regime change.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThis is the single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their Country,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/28\/khamenei-likely-killed-us-israel-iran-strikes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president posts on Truth Social that Iran\u2019s supreme leader, \u2018one of the most evil people in History, is dead\u2019 US-Israel war on Iran: Donald Trump says Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead \u2013 latest reports Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ali Khamenei has been killed in the opening salvo of a regime change war &#8230; <a title=\"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei killed by missile strike on Iran, says Donald Trump\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/ayatollah-ali-khamenei-killed-by-missile-strike-on-iran-says-donald-trump\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ayatollah Ali Khamenei killed by missile strike on Iran, says Donald Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}