Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei killed in Israeli strike in Tehran

President Donald Trump confirmed the news, calling Khamenei ‘one of the most evil people in history’

By Tamara Zieve

President Donald Trump confirmed on Saturday that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran and the country’s highest political and religious authority, was killed during Israeli and U.S. strikes in the country.

“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,” Trump wrote. 

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