{"id":1748,"date":"2026-02-28T21:54:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/u-s-backs-israels-assessment-that-khamenei-was-killed-in-airstrike\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T21:54:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:54:46","slug":"u-s-backs-israels-assessment-that-khamenei-was-killed-in-airstrike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/u-s-backs-israels-assessment-that-khamenei-was-killed-in-airstrike\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Backs Israel\u2019s Assessment That Khamenei Was Killed in Airstrike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/khamenei-killed-b-460x259.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Khamenei Killed\" \/>Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has been killed during the strikes in Iran, according to both Israel and the U.S. Following the strikes on Iran\u2019s territory on Feb. 28, 2026, Israel and the U.S. are now saying that Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, is dead. Khamenei\u2019s compound in Tehran was struck by up to 30 [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has been killed during the strikes in Iran, according to both Israel and the U.S. Following the strikes on Iran\u2019s territory on Feb. 28, 2026, Israel and the U.S. are now saying that Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, is dead. Khamenei\u2019s compound in Tehran was struck by up to 30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}