{"id":897783,"date":"2026-04-08T12:17:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/irans-supreme-leader-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-confirmed-dead-after-israeli-strike\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T12:17:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:17:58","slug":"irans-supreme-leader-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-confirmed-dead-after-israeli-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/irans-supreme-leader-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-confirmed-dead-after-israeli-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei confirmed dead after Israeli strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has died after an Israeli strike in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News reports that Israeli leaders confirmed Khamenei compound and offices were reduced to rubble early Saturday after a targeted strike in downtown Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKhamenei was the contemporary Middle East\u2019s longest-serving autocrat. He did not get to be that way by being a gambler.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKhamenei was an ideologue, but one who ruthlessly pursued the preservation and protection of his ideology, often taking two steps forward and one step back,\u201d Behnam Ben Taleblu, senior director of FDD\u2019s Iran program, told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reported that the development comes after Israeli military and the US launched an attack on Iran on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He was born April 19, 1939, in Mashhad, eastern Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Khamenei was among the Islamist activists who played a central role in the 1979 revolution that overthrew the US-backed shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2026\/02\/28\/irans-supreme-leader-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-confirmed-dead-after-israeli-strike\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has died after an Israeli strike in Tehran. Fox News reports that Israeli leaders confirmed Khamenei compound and offices were reduced to rubble early Saturday after a targeted strike in downtown Tehran. \u201cKhamenei was the contemporary Middle East\u2019s longest-serving autocrat. He did not get to be that way by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":897784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1828,1829],"tags":[10981,7078],"class_list":{"0":"post-897783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-irans","8":"category-supreme","9":"tag-irans","10":"tag-supreme"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}