Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei is dead, state media confirms

DW News · Feb 28, 2026 · Collected from RSS

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Following US and Israeli strikes on Tehran, Iran state media confirmed the death of Ali Khamenei. DW has more.

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Politico Europeabout 2 hours ago
Ayatollah Khamenei is dead. Here’s what that means for Iran’s leadership.
The country’s supreme leader led the Islamic Republic for 37 years.

South China Morning Postabout 3 hours ago
With Khamenei dead, who will be Iran’s next supreme leader?
The death of Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei raises paramount questions about the country’s future. And while a clerical panel is tasked with replacing him, succession is a complex matter in Iran’s theocracy. Here is what to know: A clerical council selects a new supreme leader An 88-member panel called the Assembly of Experts appoints the supreme leader. The panel can remove one as well, although that has never happened. The panel consists entirely of Shiite clerics who are...

The Hillabout 3 hours ago
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Iran now stands without its supreme leader for 36 years, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after joint strikes from the U.S. and Israel on Saturday killed him and attacked military command posts and missile sites across the country. President Trump announced the strikes at 2:30 a.m. EST in a video shared on Truth Social. The mission, dubbed...

Bloombergabout 3 hours ago
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Dead at 86
Ali Khamenei, Iran’s anti-Western supreme leader who dominated the Islamic Republic for more than three decades, has died at 86. Bloomberg's Haslinda Amin explains. (Source: Bloomberg)

Financial Timesabout 4 hours ago
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, 1939-2026
Hardline cleric who led Islamic Republic since 1989 projected power across the region and suppressed protests at home
Hardline cleric who led Islamic Republic since 1989 projected power across the region and suppressed protests at home

DW Newsabout 4 hours ago
Ali Khamenei — An 'unusual sort of dictator' — killed at 86
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader since 1989, has been killed by an Israeli airstrike at the age of 86. During his rule, he fought hard to prevent the modernization of the Islamic Republic.