{"id":67657,"date":"2026-02-28T23:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T04:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/us-israel-war-on-iran-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-confirmed-dead-by-state-media-latest-reports\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T23:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T04:56:21","slug":"us-israel-war-on-iran-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-confirmed-dead-by-state-media-latest-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/us-israel-war-on-iran-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-confirmed-dead-by-state-media-latest-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Israel war on Iran: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei confirmed dead by state media \u2013 latest reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president says Khamenei\u2019s death is \u2018justice for the people of Iran\u2019 as he repeats call for regime change<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/28\/khamenei-likely-killed-us-israel-iran-strikes\">Full report: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei killed<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/28\/us-israel-strikes-iran-tehran-response-visual-guide\">A visual guide to the US-Israeli strikes on Iran \u2013 and Tehran\u2019s response<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/28\/war-on-iran-how-the-us-israeli-bid-for-regime-change-unfolded\">War on Iran: how the US-Israeli bid for regime change unfolded<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Loud explosions were heard early on Sunday near <strong>Erbil airport<\/strong>, which hosts US-led coalition troops in <strong>Iraq\u2019s autonomous Kurdistan region<\/strong>, AFP reported. Thick black smoke was rising from the airport area.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, US-led coalition forces downed several missiles and explosive-laden drones over Erbil.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/mar\/01\/us-israel-war-on-iran-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-i-dead-latest-reports\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president says Khamenei\u2019s death is \u2018justice for the people of Iran\u2019 as he repeats call for regime change Full report: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei killed A visual guide to the US-Israeli strikes on Iran \u2013 and Tehran\u2019s response War on Iran: how the US-Israeli bid for regime change unfolded Loud explosions were heard early on &#8230; <a title=\"US-Israel war on Iran: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei confirmed dead by state media \u2013 latest reports\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/us-israel-war-on-iran-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-confirmed-dead-by-state-media-latest-reports\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US-Israel war on Iran: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei confirmed dead by state media \u2013 latest reports\">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-67657","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\/67657","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=67657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}