{"id":1431,"date":"2026-03-01T02:33:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T02:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2026-03-01T11:52:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T11:52:47","slug":"iranian-state-tv-confirms-supreme-leader-ali-khamenei-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/iranian-state-tv-confirms-supreme-leader-ali-khamenei-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump makes yet another threat after Iranian govt says Khamenei&#8217;s &#8216;death will not go unpunished&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>US President Donald Trump warned Iran on Sunday against a &#8220;very hard&#8221; response after Iranian state media confirmed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in joint US-Israeli attacks launched a day before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was responding to a statement from Iran that Khamenei&#8217;s death would not go unpunished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump said: &#8220;Iran just stated that they are going to hit very hard today, harder than they have ever hit before,&#8221; Trump said on Truth Social.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They better not do that, however, because if they do, we will hit them with a force that has never been seen before,&#8221; he added.Iranian state television announced on Sunday that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in US-Israeli attacks targetting Iran on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Read also: <a href=\"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/surrender-or-die-trump-tells-iran\/\">Surrender or die, Trump tells Iran<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Read also: <a href=\"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/trumps-unprovoked-illegal-attack-on-iran-sparks-protest-across-the-us\/\">Anti-war protests spread across the US<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump&#8217;s response came a few hours after Iranian television said that \u201cthe Leader of the Revolution and the Islamic Republic of Iran, Sayyed Ali Khamenei, was martyred\u201d in the US-Israeli aggression that started early on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fars News Agency reported that Khamenei \u201cwas martyred in his office while carrying out his duties during the early hours of Saturday,\u201d and his daughter, son-in-law and grandson were also killed in the attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranian government declared 40 days of national mourning and ordered the suspension of official institutions for seven days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"CROWDS GATHER IN TEHRAN AFTER KHAMENEI DEATH\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/spkT7pZwP6w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiddleEastEye\/status\/2027957075557638427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>US President Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that \u201cKhamenei, one of the most evil figures in history, is dead\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump added that \u201cheavy and pinpoint bombing, however, will continue, uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranian government announced that Khamenei\u2019s death \u201cwill not go unpunished\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It emphasised that the perpetrators and those who ordered the attack \u201cwill be made to regret it\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crisis began early Saturday when Israel and the US carried out strikes on multiple Iranian cities, including Tehran, Isfahan, Karaj, Qom, Tabriz, Bushehr, Kermanshah and Ilam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel described the operation as a &#8220;pre-emptive attack,&#8221; 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