Khamenei is dead. So are 40 of his top leaders. An oppressed nation stands on the verge of true freedom… And the people can feel it. Celebrations are erupting in Iran and all over the world to celebrate an evil dictatorship coming to an end, and hopefully, new freedom soon to bloom. From the streets of Iran: BREAKING: We have the first footage of street parties breaking out in Tehran. You don’t understand our happiness. pic.twitter.com/9ZBA7J7dW9 —

It’s official… President Trump struck Iran’s leadership with targeted but ferocious strikes and the “Supreme Leader” Khamenei is now confirmed DEAD. President Trump made the announcement himself to Truth Social: “Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead. 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…” – President Donald J. Trump pic.twitter.com/oXZTFGg5pS — The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 28, 2026 FULL TEXT: Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead. 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 and his gang of bloodthirsty THUGS. He was unable to avoid our Intelligence and Highly Sophisticated Tracking Systems and, working closely with Israel, there was not a thing he, or the other leaders that have been killed along with him, could do. This is the single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their Country. We are hearing that many of their IRGC, Military, and other Security and Police Forces, no longer want to fight, and are looking for Immunity from us. As I said last night, Now they can have Immunity, later they only get Death!” Hopefully, the IRGC and Police will peacefully merge with the Iranian Patriots, and work together as a unit to bring back the Country to the Greatness it deserves. That process should soon be starting in that, not only the death of Khamenei but the Country has been, in only one day, very much destroyed and, even, obliterated. The heavy 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! Thank you for your attention to this matter. PRESIDENT DONALD J. President Trump speaks here: BREAKING — PRESIDENT TRUMP SPEAKS ON KHAMENEI’S REPORTED DEATH: “We believe that to be the correct story” Trump has reportedly also seen photos of Khamenei’s body “The people that make all the decisions — MOST of them are gone,” Trump said pic.twitter.com/tSSXZ8uXJY — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 28, 2026 Not only is Khamenei dead but so are 40 top figures from the regime: Senior Israeli security official tells Fox’s @TreyYingst More than 40 senior Iranian security and regime figures were killed in the opening strikes this morning. This is one of the largest regime “decapitation operations” conducted in modern warfare history, the official added.… — Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) February 28, 2026 Anyone else remember after President Trump took out Soleimani back in 2020 and immediately afterward Khamenei threatened to kill President Trump in retaliation? I remember it like it was yesterday. Ahhh, flash forward six years and Khamenei is the one dead and gone, not Trump. From Reuters back in 2021: The website of Iran’s Supreme Leader on Friday carried the image of a golfer resembling former President Donald Trump apparently being targeted by a drone alongside a threat of revenge over last year’s killing of a top Iranian general in a U.S. drone attack. The image first appeared on a Persian-language Twitter feed that carried a link to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s website. Twitter took down that feed on Friday, saying it was fake. Underneath the website picture were remarks by Khamenei in December ahead of the first anniversary this month of the killing of military commander General Qassem Soleimani in Iraq, which was ordered by Trump. “Both the murderers and those who ordered it should know that revenge may come at any time,” said the comments on top of the image, which showed the shadow of a drone looming over the lone golfer. Trump, who regularly plays golf, was not named. U.S.-Iran tensions grew rapidly after 2018, when Trump exited a 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and six world powers and reimposed crippling sanctions. Tehran retaliated for Soleimani’s killing with missile strikes against U.S. targets in Iraq but the two sides backed away from further confrontation. High tension and risk of war appeared to subside with the end of Trump’s term. His successor President Joe Biden, sworn in on Wednesday, has said Washington seeks to lengthen and strengthen the nuclear constraints on Iran through diplomacy. Emily Horne, a spokeswoman for the Biden White House National Security Council, said “these kinds of threats from Iran are unacceptable.” “We strongly condemn this provocative action. We will continue to work with our friends and partners to counter Iran’s malign influence,” she said in response to a request for comment. The top Republican on the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, Michael McCaul, earlier urged the Biden administration “to respond quickly and forcefully to this provocative threat against a former president” and called on Twitter to immediately and permanently suspend Khamenei’s account. An official close to Khamenei’s inner circle said: “The aim (of the tweet) was to remind the gambler (Trump) that leaving office does not mean he will be safe and the assassination of our martyr Soleimani will be forgotten.” “And now, American troops cannot protect him,” the official, who asked not to be named, told Reuters without elaborating. Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force, was responsible for clandestine overseas operations and was widely seen as the second most powerful figure in Iran after Khamenei. Iran’s military and clerical rulers have said Tehran would choose the time and place of Soleimani’s revenge. A Tehran-based analyst said the threat could be an end in itself: “The intention of the tweet seems to be keeping alive the spectre of revenge, which perhaps by itself is a kind of revenge.”

This was unexpected. And overshadowed by everything going on in the Middle East. Federal prosecutors who are handling the Luigi Mangione case have appeared to throw the white flag when it comes to seeking the death penalty. Mangione, who is facing Federal charges of stalking and state charges of second-degree murder and weapons charges, will no longer face the death penalty after prosecutors declined to appeal a judge’s ruling that prevented them from seeking the needle for Mangione. NBC News reported more on the prosecutor’s decision not to appeal: Manhattan federal prosecutors declined to appeal a judge’s ruling that barred them from seeking the death penalty against Luigi Mangione in the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. In a letter, the government said it would not pursue an “interlocutory review” of the order from U.S. District Judge Margaret M. Garnett, who instructed prosecutors to determine by Friday whether they would appeal her ruling. Mangione’s legal team on Friday declined to comment on the government’s update. Last month, Garnett dismissed two of the four federal counts against Mangione, 27, which include murder through the use of a firearm and a related firearms offense. That murder charge carries a potential death sentence. Mangione still faces two counts of interstate stalking, which carry a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges. LUIGI: The feds will NOT try to appeal Judge Garnett’s ruling challenging the death penalty in Luigi Mangione’s murder case. Cc @CourthouseNews pic.twitter.com/e6w29igUuk — Erik Uebelacker (@Uebey) February 27, 2026 ABC News reported the next court dates Mangione is expected to attend in the near future: he defense wanted the death penalty taken off the table, arguing that stalking “fails to qualify as a crime of violence” and therefore cannot be the predicate to make Mangione eligible for the death penalty if he is convicted of the federal charges. The defense also argued that the decision to seek the death penalty was political and circumvented the federal government’s protocols. Thompson in Midtown Manhattan in December 2024, has pleaded not guilty to both state and federal charges. Garnett said jury selection in the federal case will begin on Sept. 8 and opening statements on Oct. 13. He is due to stand trial in state court beginning June 8.

The U.S. Central Command has released footage of some of the U.S. strikes on Iran. In a post on X, U.S. CENTCOM released several clips of cruise missiles and fighter jets launching strategic attacks on the Iranian regime. Watch it here: As the President stated, our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime. The President ordered bold action. CENTCOM forces are delivering an overwhelming and unrelenting blow. pic.twitter.com/B0k5gV4YnU — U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) February 28, 2026 The New York Post reported more on CENTCOM’s latest video release: US Central Command released video Saturday of American missiles obliterating various targets in Iran. The dramatic footage shows Tomahawk cruise missiles being launched from a US Navy vessel and various types of fighter jets taking off from a ship. Aerial footage of missiles striking five different targets, including an aircraft and radar station, was also shown. “As the President stated, our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime,” CENTCOM wrote on X. “The President ordered bold action,” the post continued. “CENTCOM forces are delivering an overwhelming and unrelenting blow.” The military campaign, dubbed Operation Epic Fury, involves “the largest regional concentration of American military firepower in a generation,” according to CENTCOM. Photos were also released of President Trump during the moments he launched the attack. Take a look: President Donald J. Trump Monitors U.S. Military Operations in Iran: Operation Epic Fury, February 28, 2026 pic.twitter.com/st88hbLrpY — The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 28, 2026 Fox News has since confirmed Iran’s Supreme Leader is now dead: Iran’s militant and unyielding supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ruled the Islamic Republic for more than three decades and oversaw an era of harsh internal repression and confrontation with the United States and Israel, has died following the Israeli strike in Tehran, as his compound was reduced to rubble, a senior Israeli official told Fox News Digital. “Khamenei was the contemporary Middle East’s longest-serving autocrat. He did not get to be that way by being a gambler. Khamenei was an ideologue, but one who ruthlessly pursued the preservation and protection of his ideology, often taking two steps forward and one step back,” Behnam Ben Taleblu, senior director of FDD’s Iran program, told Fox News Digital. “Khamenei’s worldview was shaped by his militant anti-Americanism and antisemitism, which first manifested itself in his protests against the Shah of Iran,” he added.

The White House just dropped some epic photos of President Trump monitoring Operation Epic Fury. Last night, President Trump oversaw the strikes on Iran from Mar-a-Lago. He was joined by Marco Rubio and other members of his national security team. Karoline Leavitt provided more details: President Trump monitored the situation overnight at Mar a Lago alongside members of his national security team. The President spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu by phone. Prior to the attacks, Secretary Rubio called all members of the gang of eight to provide congressional… — Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) February 28, 2026 President Trump monitored the situation overnight at Mar a Lago alongside members of his national security team. The President spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu by phone. Prior to the attacks, Secretary Rubio called all members of the gang of eight to provide congressional notification, and he was able to reach and brief seven of the eight members. The President and his national security team will continue to closely monitor the situation throughout the day. See the photos from inside that room here: President Donald J. Trump Monitors U.S. Military Operations in Iran: Operation Epic Fury, February 28, 2026 pic.twitter.com/OfnMkmBZ8G — The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 28, 2026 President Donald J. Trump Monitors U.S. Military Operations in Iran: Operation Epic Fury, February 28, 2026 pic.twitter.com/7zRC0mhoXk — The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 28, 2026 President Donald J. Trump Monitors U.S. Military Operations in Iran: Operation Epic Fury, February 28, 2026 pic.twitter.com/st88hbLrpY — The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 28, 2026 Vice President JD Vance, DNI Tulsi Gabbard and other members of Trump’s cabinet monitored the strikes from the White House. The White House also shared a photo from inside the Situation Room: Vice President JD Vance and Cabinet Secretaries in the Situation Room, February 28, 2026 pic.twitter.com/x3AFYv3fyH — The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 28, 2026 President Trump truly never rests. Just before the strikes on Iran, President Trump appeared at a Mar-a-Lago event. He danced with guests to the song “God Bless the USA” before excusing himself because he had “work” to do. Watch: Last night before bombs fell in Iran, President Trump made an appearance at a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago and danced to the song “God Bless the USA” before bidding the guests farewell. “We gotta go work. I gotta go to work!” pic.twitter.com/jU9ZZxYyaQ — Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) February 28, 2026 Little did everyone know that the “work” would turn out to be striking Iran! The New York Post has more details on how the strikes went down: President Trump and Vice President Vance orchestrated Saturday’s monumental strikes on Iran hundreds of miles apart from one another, according to a report. The president and his national security team gave orders for the attack from Mar-a-Lago. He is spending the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, was also with the president, a source told the Associated Press. Vance was dialed into a conference line with Trump from the Situation Room at the White House, where he was joined by US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, as well as the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, another insider said.

Color me extremely shocked, but NASA has just scrapped its plans for the Artemis III mission. Check out this Tweet from NASA back on October 28, 2024 telling us that the Artemis III mission will send astronauts back to the Moon for the first time in over 50 years: Our #Artemis III astronauts will land on the Moon for the first time in over 50 years. Where on the Moon are they landing? We are refining a list of nine areas near the lunar South Pole, a place we’ve never set foot on before: https://t.co/v2rmELgPW9 pic.twitter.com/FIygdytbJy — NASA (@NASA) October 28, 2024 Wow! Incredible, right? Actually, I told you at the time it would never happen. They’ve been playing this same game for over 50 years. They keep telling us we’ll surely go “back” (hmmmmm, back?) to the Moon in a few months or in a few years.  Everyone gets excited.  Then at the last minute they cancel it, but no one notices or cares.  Then a few months or years later, wash, rinse, repeat. And right on schedule, NASA has just announced the Artemis III Moon Mission Is Now Scrapped: I’ll take things that will never happen for 500 Alex! They posted that crap in 2024, I am patient. https://t.co/2T22YReICJ pic.twitter.com/Bmc87X7zmf — The Secrets Of Heaven (@PlaneAndTruth) February 28, 2026 To be clear, they still claim that Artemis II will joyride Astronauts to and around the Moon in 2026 for a fun little joyride mission, but it will not bother to stop and land on the Moon. The Guardian explained more details here: Nasa announced on Friday radical changes to its delayed Artemis III mission to land humans back on the moon, as the US space agency grapples with technical glitches and criticism that it is trying to do too much too soon. The abrupt shift in strategy was laid out by the space agency’s recently confirmed administrator, Jared Isaacman. Announcing the changes on Friday, he said that Nasa would introduce at least one new moon flight before attempting to put humans back on the lunar surface for the first time in more than half a century, in 2028. The new, more incremental approach would give the Nasa team a chance to test flight and refine its technology. As part of the changes, the Artemis II mission to fly humans around the moon this year, without landing, would also be pushed back from its latest scheduled launch on 6 March to 1 April at the earliest. “Everybody agrees this is the only way forward,” Isaacman told reporters at a news conference. “I know this is how Nasa changed the world, and this is how Nasa is going to do it again.” The revised course came as Nasa has been wrestling with a number of delays and technical problems. Earlier this week, the independent body that reviews space safety issued a blunt report sharply criticising the space agency’s current plans as too risky. The aerospace safety advisory panel recommended that Nasa rethink its objectives for Artemis III, which had been conceived as the first human landing on the moon since the final flight in the Apollo series in December 1972. The panel said that the call for a revision was urgent, “given the demanding mission goals”. Isaacman said that under the new plan, the eventual moon landing would be achieved through evolutionary steps rather than big leaps in technological procedures. “We’re going to get there in steps, continue to take down risk as we learn more and we roll that information into subsequent designs,” he told CBS News. He added: “We’ve got to get back to basics.” Step one in the revised schedule is the launch of the Artemis II moon mission, which has been plagued by delays. The rocket was returned to its hangar at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida earlier this week. Engineers had discovered a blockage in the rocket’s helium flow in the upper stage of the booster. The latest delay followed disappointment in February, when Nasa was forced to put off the launch of Artemis II after hydrogen was found leaking from its Space Launch System rocket. Artemis II will send four astronauts on a 10-day journey around the moon, designed to take people further into space than ever before, beyond the record set by Apollo 13 in 1970. Isaacman said on Friday that additional missions would then be included in the schedule. He likened the extra steps to the approach taken in Nasa’s original moon landing in which Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first stepped on to the lunar surface in 20 July 1969. That legendary event was hazarded only after three separate moon missions had been completed. The Artemis III mission will no longer aim to land on the moon. Instead, under the revised plans, it will be launched by mid-2027 as a low-Earth orbit designed to test essential technologies. Consider me shocked….shocked I say!  [massive sarcasm alert] I told you back in January that EXACTLY this very thing would happen: NASA Plans To Send Astronauts Back To The Moon In February And for more reading, you might find this absolutely fascinating: Did We Go To The Moon In 1969? The Moon Rocks Are The Clue! I had Jovan Pulitzer on my show yesterday, and you know it was a good show (because of the Guest!) when you’re still thinking about it the next day! And that’s exactly what I’ve been doing all day today…thinking about my chat with Jovan and re-running it through my head. The whole thing was fascinating as it always is each time I get the pleasure of having him come on my show…I have so much fun getting to chat with him, I suddenly look up and a couple hours have flown by! But the thing that’s still running through my head a full day later is what Jovan told me about the Moon. We were on the topic of Conspiracy Theories and so I randomly asked him “Do you think we went to the Moon in 1969?” I had no idea what his answer was going to be…. And quite frankly what he said shocked me.  It was not the answer I would have expected if you had asked me ahead of time. Let me post the full video links to the interview here in case you missed it and then scroll down and I’ll break down what he said and all my thoughts as I sit here one day later. Watch here: Backup here on Rumble if needed: And then here are all the links you need that we mentioned in the interview:

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The Iranian diaspora around the world has begun to celebrate the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after the United States and Israel carried out strikes on Tehran.