{"id":8339,"date":"2026-03-22T13:50:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=8339"},"modified":"2026-03-22T13:50:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:50:39","slug":"iran-state-media-confirms-killing-of-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-after-us-israeli-missile-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/22\/iran-state-media-confirms-killing-of-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-after-us-israeli-missile-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran state media confirms killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after US-Israeli missile strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Iranian state media confirmed the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei following a joint US-Israeli military campaign, dubbed &#8220;Operation Epic Fury,&#8221; aimed at regime change. Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu heralded the strike as a decisive success, reporting that advanced tracking systems were used to target Khamenei\u2019s compound and several nuclear program leaders. In retaliation, Iran launched missile and drone attacks against Israel and US military installations in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar, resulting in casualties and infrastructure damage across the region. Amidst reports of hundreds of civilian casualties in Iran, the UN Secretary-General has called for an immediate ceasefire to prevent a full-scale regional war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> March 1, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/28\/khamenei-likely-killed-us-israel-iran-strikes\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian state media confirmed the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei following a joint US-Israeli military campaign, dubbed &#8220;Operation Epic Fury,&#8221; aimed at regime change. Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu heralded the strike as a decisive success, reporting that advanced tracking systems were used to target Khamenei\u2019s compound and several nuclear program leaders. In retaliation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":8342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8458,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8339\/revisions\/8458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}