(Staff post from the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD on 01 March 2026.)
‘One
of the most evil people in history’: Khamenei killed in strikes, Trump confirms.
US President Donald Trump says the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
is the “greatest chance” for Iranians to take back the country following a
stunning new chapter in American military intervention that opens the potential
for retaliatory violence in the Middle East and elsewhere.
Iranian
state media confirmed the death, without elaborating on a cause of death,
following the most ambitious strikes on the country by the United States and
Israel in decades on Saturday Australian time.
In a
social media post on Sunday Australian time, Trump called Khamenei “one of the
most evil people in history” and said that “heavy and pinpoint bombing” would
continue “uninterrupted” in the coming week and possibly beyond.
US President Donald Trump said that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei could not escape the US and Israeli web of surveillance. “This is not only Justice for the people of Iran, but for all Great Americans, and those people from many Countries throughout the World, that have been killed or mutilated by Khamenei,” he said in the post.
