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Emergency Security Council Meeting Called as U.N. Chief Guterres ‘Condemns' U.S.-Israel Strikes on Iran
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Good Morning



As Georgia prosecutor pursued Trump, Biden
DOJ 'invited' her to get lucrative grant, memos show
Sunday 03/01/2026

1925MrsMayBHendley.
-Land of the Free
Navy will decommission 2 San Diego-based
warships and a submarine this summer
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
CNN Was Forced to Admit That A LOT of
Iranians Are Celebrating the Death of Ayatollah Khamenei
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Trump promises to hit Iran 'with a force that has never been seen before' as dozens of US military bases are targeted after Iran launches 'the most ferocious offensive operation in HISTORY'
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iranian missile strike hits Bahrain, again
Arabia
Saudi Arabia Condemns Iranian Attacks on Gulf Nations
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Operation Epic Fury: %u2018Largest Regional Concentration of American Military Firepower in Generation', Zero U.S. Casualties Recorded, Says CENTCOM
China's out of power generals:
9 More Mil Officers and 10 Legislators Purged

Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2026 || Comments || Link || [1801 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Nice beaver possum"
"Thanks, I just had it stuffed"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/01/2026 12:00 Comments || Top||

#2  That has to have been much harder. She may have had to call around to find a recipe. No YouTube to see how to clean it.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/01/2026 13:04 Comments || Top||

#3  I had some 'possum' in the south during my youth. Wasn't too bad, but the lady who prepared and cooked it was quite elderly and she told me that it 'takes a bit' to do.

Something she learned in her youth when 'times were harder and y'all ate what you could'.

Jeez, we have it easy in comparison.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/01/2026 14:24 Comments || Top||

#4  All I know about possums is that they are totally flat and sleep on the roadways.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 03/01/2026 15:11 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: 3dc || 03/01/2026 18:35 Comments || Top||

#6  #4 AH - Like Armadillos?
Posted by: Frank G || 03/01/2026 18:44 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Niger-Dosso: A gendarmerie officer killed in an ambush in Dosso

Translated Text:

🟥▪️Niger-Dosso: A gendarmerie officer killed in an ambush in Dosso

A Nigerien gendarmerie officer was killed yesterday, Friday, February 27, 2026, in a clash with elements of a GAT in the Dosso region, during an operation in the Falwel sector, security sources told us.

According to these sources, a gendarmerie patrol had been dispatched yesterday, Friday, to this rural area where armed individuals had been reported. During the on-site sweep operation launched there, the terrorists set up an ambush and opened fire on the patrol, fatally striking Lieutenant Lamine Oumar, known by the nickname "Kélé."

Posted by: badanov || 03/01/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1777 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
Nigerian: Military Airstrikes neutralized ISWAP Commanders, others in precision strike on Sambisa hideouts

Text:

Military Airstrikes neutralized ISWAP Commanders, others in precision strike on Sambisa hideouts

By Zagazola Makama

The Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai has neutralised two senior terrorist commanders, Saddam and Saleh Garin Kago, alongside other fighters, in a precision air interdiction (AI) mission at Yuwe in the Sambisa general area of Borno.

Sources who disclosed this to Zagazola said that the early morning strike also eliminated Hussaini Ubaida and Ba Alayi Benbem, while destroying identified terrorist command hideouts and logistics warehouses.

The sources said the mission was executed at about 6:08 a.m. on Friday following confirmatory Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) on structures suspected to be terrorists’ commanders’ hideouts and storage facilities within the Yuwe axis.

Posted by: badanov || 03/01/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1770 views] Top|| File under:


Nigeria: Troops neutralise terrorists’ structures, arrest two logistics suppliers in Sabon Garin Fishingo in Borno

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Troops neutralise terrorists’ structures, arrest two logistics suppliers in Sabon Garin Fishingo in Borno

By Zagazola Makama

Troops of Operation Hadin Kai, Sector 2, have destroyed terrorist life-support structures and arrested two suspected Boko Haram logistics suppliers during clearance operations around Sabon Gari Fishingo in Borno State.

Security sources told Zagazola that the troops, in conjunction with quasi-security forces, conducted the operation at about 8:30 p.m. on Feb. 28.

Posted by: badanov || 03/01/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1775 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Britain
UK man charged with criminal damage after pro-Palestinian graffiti on Churchill statue
[Dawn] London police said on Saturday a man had been charged with criminal damage for graffitiing a statue of Britannia’s World War II prime minister Winston Churchill with pro-Paleostinian slogans.

The monument in the central Parliament Square was smeared with red paint early on Friday and "Zionist war criminal" among the slogans written on it.

The Metropolitan Police said Caspar San Giorgio, 38, of no fixed address, was charged early on Saturday, some 24 hours after his arrest.

He were tossed into the calaboose within minutes of officers being alerted to the incident, according to the force.

He was due to appear at a London magistrates’ court later on Saturday.

The words "free Paleostine" and "stop the genocide" were also sprayed on the statue, which workers cleaned off on Friday.

The incident prompted Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office to call the damage "completely abhorrent" and commend police for the swift arrest.

"Churchill was a great Briton," a front man said.

The 3.6 metre Churchill statue has been vandalised a number of times in recent years, including during Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion climate demonstrations in 2020.
Black Bloc/Antifa, both.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1774 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Charged? In Londonstan? Hard to believe.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/01/2026 11:39 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Mass Shooting on Austin's 6th Street Leaves 3 Dead, 17 Wounded ‐ Shooter Killed by Police
[Breitbart] Shooter naturalized from Senegal. FBI looking at terrorism links per news conference on Fox just now. Koran in car, he was dressed in "Islamic garb"
At least three people were killed, and 17 were injured after shots rang out at a popular Sixth Street bar in the Texas capital city of Austin early Sunday morning. According to authorities, the shooter was killed by police officers who arrived at the establishment within a minute of the first emergency call.

During an early-morning press conference, Travis County EMS Chief Robert Luckritz told reporters that 14 people were transported to area hospitals. Authorities have not provided an update on their condition.

The New York Post reported that the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force is on the scene and assisting in the investigation. Other reports show that police were on the scene in less than one minute.
From links in comments:
Texas shooter Ndiaga Diagne, 53, of Senegal arrived in the US on March 13, 2000 on a B-2 tourist visa during the Democratic Clinton administration and became a lawful permanent resident (IR-6) when he married a US citizen in June 2006, a source familiar with his immigration history told The Post.

He then became a naturalized US citizen on April 5, 2013 around the start of former President Barack Obama’s second term — despite his growing rap sheet spanning New York and Texas.

Law enforcement knew him as an emotionally disturbed person in both New York and Texas before Sunday’s bloody rampage, sources said.

He also had a string of previous arrests under his belt in the Big Apple and Texas, sources said, including a 2022 arrest in the Lone Star State for collision with vehicle damage.

In New York City, he notched busts between 2001 and 2016, the year he applied for asylum under the waning Obama administration.
He’d been a citizen for three years, and resident for sixteen — from what did he need asylum?

Posted by: Frank G || 03/01/2026 12:24 || Comments || Link || [1847 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


#2  Had "Property of Allah" on his shirt and an undershirt with an Iranian flag on it
Posted by: Frank G || 03/01/2026 12:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Senegal doesn’t seem like a hotbed of this stuff. Must have joined the wrong mosque.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/01/2026 13:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Pics and video links here.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 03/01/2026 15:05 Comments || Top||

#5  HT Insty
Posted by: Frank G || 03/01/2026 16:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Moved to Home Front:WoT because this isn’t about Israel, but is straightforward Sudden Jihad Syndrome.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2026 19:37 Comments || Top||

#7 
…who was born in Senegal and was living in Pflugerville, TX. I am told he was also wearing an undershirt that had an Iranian flag on it.

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
NEW: Per multiple federal sources, the Senegalese mass shooter was naturalized into a U.S. citizen during the Obama administration in 2013.
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Ida
@HeidiSnow381
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“Reports describe a history of arrests in New York spanning from 2001 up to around 2016 (some sources say at least four total in NYC, with others possibly sealed or minor).”

“In Texas, reports are he accumulated a history of arrests, though the nature and dates of those have not been publicly detailed yet.”

All this and STILL he was granted and maintained citizenship.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2026 20:01 Comments || Top||

#8  Obama: "If I had a 53 yr old terrorist child he'd look like....scratch that"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/01/2026 22:00 Comments || Top||

#9  We'll eventually have to confront the muslims that live here...because they'll eventually confront us.

Islam is incompatible with the United States Constitution.
Posted by: Crusader || 03/01/2026 22:50 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Tehrik-eTaliban Pakistan (TTP) drone-bombed a Pakistani Army Base in South Waziristan.
Posted by: badanov || 03/01/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1804 views] Top|| File under: Pak Taliban (TTP)

#1  link about shia general revolting in Karachi link
Posted by: 3dc || 03/01/2026 15:35 Comments || Top||


#3  From 3dc’s first tweet:

According to reports, Shia General Muhammad Owais Dastgir is extremely angry over Asim Munir maintaining good relations and cooperating with the United States and Israel.

I cannot imagine any Pakistani army officer cooperating with Israel, nor honestly can I imagine that Israel has any interest in the Indian subcontinent whatsoever. Except, I suppose, chance-heard information to be passed on to the Indians. But they wouldn’t cultivate sources for that, with all their more urgent interests.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2026 20:25 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Trump promises to hit Iran 'with a force that has never been seen before' as dozens of US military bases are targeted after Iran launches 'the most ferocious offensive operation in HISTORY'
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/01/2026 06:42 || Comments || Link || [1835 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


#2  Unfortunately, Iran had a lot of missile sites we didn't hit yesterday. Perhaps they were successfully camouflaged. Iran is a very big country with a lot of terrain that is good for hiding stuff.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 03/01/2026 10:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Another reef built:
Brandon Weichert
@WeTheBrandon
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12h
🚨🚨BREAKING: US Navy allegedly sinks one of Iran's diesel-electric subs which had deployed to sink the USS Abraham Lincoln
Posted by: Frank G || 03/01/2026 10:13 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Frank G || 03/01/2026 10:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Feel good video of the day!
Posted by: MegaByses || 03/01/2026 10:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Instant laughter!
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 03/01/2026 10:40 Comments || Top||

#7  What a grand Jiffy Pop moment. If you haven't shared that with the grand kids, now is the time.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/01/2026 10:51 Comments || Top||

#8  The American sub crew has done something that hasn’t been done in a while. Officially, anyway.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/01/2026 10:57 Comments || Top||

#9  AI-generated, but entertaining.
Posted by: European Conservative || 03/01/2026 13:13 Comments || Top||

#10  A very big bang!
video at X link
A massive explosion near #Tehran, the Iranian capital, right now, with a thick cloud of smoke rising into the sky.
This explosion is considered the second most powerful after nuclear explosions, and it is believed to have targeted an underground nuclear weapons depot where Iranian ballistic missiles were stored.
The X link
Posted by: 3dc || 03/01/2026 13:32 Comments || Top||

#11  And this money detail
X link
Text:
The 118-year cycle closed this morning.

It began in 1908 when William Knox D'Arcy struck oil in southwest Persia.
Exclusive extraction rights. Sixteen percent royalty—no Iranian permitted to audit the books.
Anglo-Persian Oil Company born.
Churchill called it "a prize from fairy land beyond our wildest dreams."

The British government took 51% controlling stake in 1914.
The Royal Navy ran on it.
Britain's 20th century standard of living was subsidized by Iranian wealth while Iranian workers lived without running water.

When Mossadegh nationalized in 1951, the system corrected.
Operation Ajax installed the Shah.

The MB —now designated T3rr0r1st organization—provided the street chaos then as they have in every managed conflict since.

When the Shah outlived his utility, the Ayatollahs inherited the franchise.

Same architecture.

Different management.

The mechanism has been consistent:
City of London sets global oil prices, insures shipments, banks sovereign wealth, launders for the chaos mafias.

Managed conflict between Israel and Arab states, Sunni and Shia, keeps the extraction flowing.

The wars were never independent events.

They were maintenance payments on the architecture.

Until today.

Trump secured $2 trillion in Gulf sovereign wealth investments—capital that sat in City of London banks now committed to American manufacturing, energy, and AI infrastructure.

The Board of Peace.
Sisi at the table.
Qatar and Turkey involved despite Netanyahu's objections.

This isn't bilateral.
It's architectural.

Treasury Secretary Bessent stated plainly in January: 50% of his job is national security.

The war was always financial.
The kinetic phase settles the account.

The strikes hit precisely—IRGC command, Supreme Leader—not facilities, not population, not the state apparatus.

This preserves the Geneva framework that was already authorized.

Leaves the structure intact for the pragmatist pivot.

JD Vance told the Washington Post Friday: "There is no chance this becomes a forever war." Absolute.

Not hedging.
Marine veteran who built his career opposing forever wars.

The Venezuela template: remove the obstacle, preserve the institution, deal with the remaining government immediately.

"Take over your government. It will be yours to take."
- @POTUS


Not regime change.

Not occupation.

Removing the final veto player who blocked both the old extraction system and the new construction system.

The Barrack-Maliki formation unpauses now.

The GCC absorbed missiles without breaking stride because they were already on the other side of this transition.

The Strait of Hormuz threat evaporates when the actor threatening it is removed.

The $2T flows. The reconstruction begins.

They'll call it Iraq 2003.

They'll scream regime change.

They'll never mention 1908 because that story requires admitting who built the house that just got foreclosed.

The reset isn't coming.

The reset happened while they were watching the explosions.

Historical times.

Credit to @BarbaraMBoyd
via @PrometheanActn
for insights and how this ties into what we, specifically are monitoring on this account.
Posted by: 3dc || 03/01/2026 13:41 Comments || Top||

#12  Thanks 3dc. Very informative and comports with the lengthy tweet posted above. Amazing what can be done when there are actual patriots in charge.
Posted by: Remoteman || 03/01/2026 14:10 Comments || Top||

#13  Iran is a very big country with a lot of terrain that is good for hiding stuff.

Why can't they be like Falestinians and put all their rocket launchers in schools and hospitals?😪
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 03/01/2026 15:03 Comments || Top||

#14  "Why can't they be like Falestinians " Iran has mountains and extensive desert wastelands not available in Gaza.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 03/01/2026 15:09 Comments || Top||

#15  We hacked Iranian TV and DJT made a special guest appearance:

https://x.com/NiohBerg/status/2028199803633455232
Posted by: Matt || 03/01/2026 15:21 Comments || Top||

#16  Matt wrap in "less than sign> a "href='your link' > text "less than sign slash a>
Posted by: 3dc || 03/01/2026 15:42 Comments || Top||

#17  Anguper, joke.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 03/01/2026 17:56 Comments || Top||

#18  Locals enjoying fireworks.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/01/2026 18:13 Comments || Top||


Iranian missile strike hits Bahrain, again
[X]

Courtesy of Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435
This is not a war ON Iran, this is a war FOR Iran. They were planning on pre-emptively striking US bases all over, causing mass casualties.



Courtesy of Skidmark: Dubai's famous Burj Al Arab hotel ablaze after being 'hit by suicide drone' after Iranian kamikaze attacks on Palm Jumeirah and Bahrain skyscraper
Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1821 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran






Operation Epic Fury: ‘Largest Regional Concentration of American Military Firepower in Generation', Zero U.S. Casualties Recorded, Says CENTCOM
[Breitbart] There were zero casualties as a result of retaliatory strikes from the Islamist Iranian regime in response to the opening salvo of the Operation Epic Fury military operation by the United States, CENTCOM said on Saturday.

Operation Epic Fury represented the “largest regional concentration of American military firepower in a generation,” according to a statement released on social media from U.S. Central Command.

“U.S. and partner forces began striking targets at 1:15 am ET to dismantle the Iranian regime’s security apparatus, prioritizing locations that posed an imminent threat. Targets included Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps command and control facilities, Iranian air defense capabilities, missile and drone launch sites, and military airfields,” CENTCOM said.

“The President ordered bold action, and our brave Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, Guardians, and Coast Guardsmen are answering the call,” said CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper.

Central Command said that its forces “successfully defended against hundreds of Iranian missile and drone attacks,” with zero American casualties or combat-related injuries reported during the opening series of attacks on Saturday.

U.S. military installations in the region only suffered “minimal” damage as a result of Iranian strikes and operations were not impacted, CENTCOM said.

“Operation Epic Fury involves the largest regional concentration of American military firepower in a generation,” the U.S. Central Command said, adding that the “first hours of the operation included precision munitions launched from air, land, and sea.”


CENTCOM also confirmed earlier reports that the U.S. deployed “low-cost one-way attack drones” for the first time in a combat operation as a part of its “Task Force Scorpion Strike” on Saturday.

According to the Times of Israel, the state-backed Iranian Red Crescent Society NGO said there were at least 201 people killed and 747 wounded in Iran as a result of the U.S.-Israel strikes on Saturday.

It remains unclear if any senior leaders in the Islamist regime were killed in the strikes, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was quoted earlier on Saturday as saying that the Ayatollah was alive “as far as I know”.

Meanwhile, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said that they conducted the “largest military flyover” in their history, saying that 200 Israeli Air Force (IAF) jets completed a “broad strike against the missile array and the aerial defense systems of the IRGC in western and central Iran.”

The IDF said that over 500 targets in Iran were hit, including “aerial defense systems & missile launchers” in simultaneous strikes across Iran.

“Conducted following precise planning with excellent intelligence, while synchronizing hundreds of fighter jets, the strikes allowed the expansion of the IAF’s aerial superiority over Iranian air space.”

President Donald Trump on Saturday urged the Iranian people to seize the opportunity of the strikes to topple the Islamist government in Tehran, saying that the “hour of your freedom is at hand”.

“When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will probably be your only chance for generations… now is the time to seize control of your destiny,” he said.

BBC: US and Israeli strikes on Iran in maps
Paywalled, but what I can see looks interesting.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/01/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1856 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  There is this fund in the City Of London (deeply tied to LLoyds) where since 1908 they have controlled the sale of every drop of oil from Iran. Well in the recent attacks on Iran the USA blew up the power supply to the pumps on Kharg Island... shorts on LLoyds and the British pound before the markets open Monday could make a lot of money...
Posted by: 3dc || 03/01/2026 3:57 Comments || Top||


#3  Iran’s Terrorist Revolutionary Guard Blocks Strait of Hormuz
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/01/2026 8:12 Comments || Top||

#4  First Oil Tanker Hit In Strait Of Hormuz
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/01/2026 9:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Operation Epic Fury: US confirms three casualties, attacks continue unabated

Posted by: Grom the Affective || 03/01/2026 11:57 Comments || Top||

#6  I don’t like casualties. Probably more dead over the weekend in Chicago.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/01/2026 13:12 Comments || Top||

#7  My wife said there were 12 deaths. That means the MSM reported 12 deaths.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/01/2026 14:12 Comments || Top||

#8  Last Week: 2/22 – 2/28 (vs WoW)
Shot & Killed: 5 (0%)
Shot & Wounded: 28 (+47%)
Total Shot: 33 (+38%)
Total Homicides: 6 (+20%)

Chicago Crime 2026
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/01/2026 21:35 Comments || Top||


An Iranian missile crashed in southwestern Syria, killing four people
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] An Iranian missile landed in the city of Suwayda in southwestern Syria, causing casualties. This was reported on February 28 by the SANA news agency.

An Iranian missile crashed in southwestern Syria, killing four people.
According to the agency, fragments of a rocket shot down by Israeli forces fell on a residential building, killing four people.

Eyewitnesses captured footage of a destroyed building and a street strewn with debris. Suwayda is located near the border with Jordan.



Posted by: badanov || 03/01/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1768 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


200 fighter aircraft of the Air Force have carried out a wide-ranging air strike against missile systems

Translated Text:

The Largest Offensive Sortie in the History of the Israeli Air Force: Nearly 200 Fighter Aircraft Carry Out a Wide-Ranging Air Strike Against Missile Units and Air Defenses Affiliated with the Iranian Terrorist Regime in Western and Central Iran

⭕️Since this morning, nearly 200 fighter aircraft of the Air Force have carried out a wide-ranging air strike against missile systems and air defense systems affiliated with the Iranian terrorist regime in western and central Iran.

⭕️It is the largest offensive sortie in the history of the Israeli Air Force and was executed through a meticulously planned operation based on high-quality intelligence information, with coordination of the flight of hundreds of aircraft simultaneously.

⭕️Air Force fighter jets dropped hundreds of munitions at the same time on more than 500 targets, including air defenses and missile launch platforms in several areas across Iran. The attack on the air defenses enabled the expansion of air superiority in Iranian airspace and the delivery of a harsh blow to the regime's primary offensive capabilities, which are missile launch sites in western Iran.

⭕️One of the targeted sites was located in the Tabriz area in western Iran, noting that it had been used by a surface-to-surface missile unit and was planned to launch dozens of missiles from it toward Israel's home front.

⭕️Thanks to the air sortie that was carried out, it was possible to thwart many threats to Air Force fighter jets and to Israel's home front.

The advantage of having your own, personal satellite overhead. Plus drones operated out of a secret Mossad base nearby, I suppose.

Posted by: badanov || 03/01/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1767 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


#2  9 killed in missile strike in Beit Shemesh
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 03/01/2026 11:58 Comments || Top||


Al Mayadeen: Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei commands the battle from the operations room UPDATE: Big Turban toes up
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is at the operational headquarters and directing military operations, Lebanese television channel Al-Mayadeen reported on February 28

"Mr. Ali Khamenei, as he was during the 12-day war, is at the operational headquarters and is directing and managing the military operations," the channel announced, citing a source.

Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that there were signs that Iran's supreme leader had died. Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had previously claimed that Khamenei was alive and well.

On the morning of February 28, Israel and the United States launched military operations " Lion's Roar " and "Epic Fury" against Iran. Specifically, the Iranian port city of Bushehr, home to the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, was attacked. Strikes were also carried out on the city of Bandar Abbas, home to Iran's most important seaport. Several explosions rocked Tehran. Explosions were also heard in Isfahan, Qom, Lorestan, Kermanshah, Tabriz, and Karaj.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in a conversation with his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, condemned the unprovoked attack by the US and Israel. Russia and China requested an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council.

More from regnum.ru
Western media reported that Iranian leader Khamenei had died.
Several media outlets, citing Israeli officials, reported that Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has allegedly died.

Thus, the Reuters agency, citing an Israeli official, claims that Khamenei’s body has been found.

An Axios journalist also wrote on social media that Israeli Ambassador Yehiel Leiter in Washington confirmed the death of Ali Khamenei in the attack on his residence. The diplomat reported this to US officials.

Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi issued a statement that Khamenei was alive and well. Araqchi added that two officers were killed in the strikes, but all high-ranking officials survived.

On February 28, Israel and the United States launched military operations " Lion's Roar " and "Epic Fury" against Iran. Cities were hit with rocket fire. Ali Khamenei was reportedly among the targets of the missile strikes.

More from Fox News:



Facebook Reel: Iranian TV announcer weeps as he reports Ayatollah Khamenei is dead.

Posted by: badanov || 03/01/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1781 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Off to Smithereens, at home surrounded by loved ones. How sweet.
Posted by: Cesare || 03/01/2026 8:01 Comments || Top||


#3  "He's pining for the fjords of Qom"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/01/2026 9:01 Comments || Top||

#4  C'mon guys, Just 'cause the Big K got his 72 raisins doesn't mean we should have to forego the Daily Women Who Bathe uplift...
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/01/2026 9:07 Comments || Top||

#5  About that 72 virgins thing...

See, there's no sex organs in the afterlife, therefore no sex is possible, which means they're all virgins forever and forever!

Then there's that Khamenei is one of the 72 virgins, not that the 72 virgin will cater to Khamenei desires (which of course will be impossible to fill seeing how they're all permanently virgins!)

Sucks to be a Muslim!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 03/01/2026 12:36 Comments || Top||

#6  [Bee] Ayatollah To Give Speech As Soon As Officials Find The Rest Of His Body
Iranian officials have promised that Ayatollah Khamenei will give a speech just as soon as they have located the rest of his body.

The Iranian government has said it will prove that the strikes on Iran have been a complete failure by showing Khamenei alive and well. However, the speech will have to wait until they can find his legs.

"The world shall see how the cowardly attacks of America could never touch Allah's chosen one," said an Iranian official. "The Ayatollah himself will speak to his people, as soon as he has, ah, gathered himself. We are waiting only for the moment when the pieces have fallen into place, so to speak."

At publishing time, suspicions had been raised after the speech was given by Khamenei's head on a broomstick with an aide moving his jaw up and down.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/01/2026 14:59 Comments || Top||

#7  The temporarily acting supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Arafeh, was killed after new strikes on Tehran, according to Israeli media.

He was appointed this morning to replace Khamenei, who was also killed yesterday in strikes by the US and Israel.
Posted by: 3dc || 03/01/2026 15:47 Comments || Top||

#8  Well, they can call on Short Round...ohhh, as Grom notes elsewhere, he's now currently dead. What's the half-life of the next one?
Posted by: Frank G || 03/01/2026 16:14 Comments || Top||

#9  well after that big bang on the missiles and nuke stuff in Tehran this morning.. perhaps it's all radioactive ?
Posted by: 3dc || 03/01/2026 16:32 Comments || Top||



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