Ayatollah Arafi was appointed Iran’s temporary leader after Ayatollah Khamenei was killed on Saturday. – Iranian news

On Saturday, after weeks of failed negotiations, the US and Israel unleashed ‘Operation Epic Fury’ on the wicked Iranian regime. The successful military strike took out the top officials of the Iranian regime, including:

• Ali Khamenei (Supreme Leader).
• Ali Shamkhani (Defense Council Secretary / senior advisor).
• Mohammad Pakpour (IRGC commander).
• Aziz Nasirzadeh (Defense Minister).
• Abdolrahim Mousavi (Chief of General Staff / Armed Forces Chief of Staff).

There are reports that the coordinated hit took out 40 top level officials from the radical Islamic regime.

Three Americans were killed in retalitory strikes by Iran, five more are in serious condition.

Iran quickly installed Ayatollah Arafi as their new Islamic ruler. And Arafi is already shooting off his mouth.

Arafi was appointed today to Iran’s 3-member interim leadership council alongside the president and chief justice.

The rumblings that Arafi was killed in a strike have not been confirmed.

In 2019 Arafi led the crowd chanting, “Death to America, Death to England!”

The acting Supreme Leader of Iran is now Ayatollah Alireza Arafi.

Here's him in 2019 leading the crowd chanting “Death to America, Death to England, Death to the hypocrites and the infidels, Death to Israel.”

I don't think he's going to last very long. pic.twitter.com/QNbPFzsRjr

— Yehuda Teitelbaum (@chalavyishmael) March 1, 2026

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President Donald J. Trump Monitors U.S. Military Operations in Iran: Operation Epic Fury, February 28, 2026 via White House on X

President Trump reportedly said on Sunday that 48 Iranian leaders were “wiped out in one shot” during Operation Epic Fury in Iran on Saturday.  

As The Gateway Pundit reported, the joint US-Israel operation in Iran killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and 40 other top Iranian leaders. Trump announced the operation on Saturday morning.

Trump later released a statement on Truth Social, confirming the death of the Ayatollah and urging the people of Iran to rise up and take over their government.

“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!” Trump said.

Trump further told reporters that he could “go long and take over the whole thing or end it in two or three days and tell the Iranians: ‘See you again in a few years if you start rebuilding [your nuclear and missile programs].”

Meanwhile, US and Israeli strikes on Iranian targets are continuing as Iran fires retaliatory strikes.

Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich on Sunday said that she had just spoken to Trump, who said that the operation is still moving along “rapidly” after killing dozens of Iranian officials and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

WATCH:

Heinrich: Moments ago, I spoke with President Trump, who tells me he knows how many targets are left to hit as part of the joint US-Israeli strikes. The president told me 48 Iranian leaders were wiped out in one shot, adding that Operation Epic Fury is moving along rapidly.

US Central Command on Sunday confirmed that three American troops were killed during the operation, and five were seriously injured.

MORE:

US Central Command Confirms 3 Americans Killed, 5 “Seriously Injured” in Operation Epic Fury

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Ahmadinejad was another Iranian power player killed during airstrikes – Wiki Commons

He said Israel should be erased from the map – and paid the price.

Hardliner Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was reportedly killed in the first round of Israeli airstrikes inside Iran.

Iranian media said Ahmadinejad was killed in a strike.

BREAKING: Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad killed in strike, Iranian media says

— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 1, 2026

The irony is that, according to an Axios report, Ahmadinejad was under House arrest for taking part in a ‘Palace Coup’ attempt with Regime Reformists.

FORMER PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD DIED IN YESTERDAY’S ATTACK ON IRAN pic.twitter.com/MVflxpJ9Bz

— Iran Observer (@IranObserver0) March 1, 2026

The New York Post reported:

“Ahmadinejad served as Iran’s sixth president from 2005 to 2013, rising from relative obscurity as mayor of Tehran to defeat establishment figure Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in a surprise 2005 runoff.

Critics at home and abroad described him as a confrontational ideologue whose economic management fueled inflation and whose rhetoric deepened Iran’s international isolation.”

Former President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and several of his close-associates and bodyguards were reportedly killed in a strike yesterday on Tehran by the Israeli Air Force. pic.twitter.com/8VetxUEAPA

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) March 1, 2026

“During a 2005 conference titled ‘A World Without Zionism’, he quoted Iran’s founding leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, who had referred to Israel as “the occupying regime of Jerusalem” and a ‘disgraceful cancerous growth’ that ‘must be wiped off the map’.”

But the fog of war is thick: while reports of Ahmadinejad’s death have multiplied around the world, Iranian state media now says that these reports are unconfirmed.

Times of Israel reported:

“Some outlets cite the Iran Labor News Agency. However, the news site says explicitly that the reports ‘cannot be confirmed’.

‘One of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s close associates, in contact with ILNA, denied the news of the martyrdom of the president of the ninth and tenth governments without any additional information, saying: ‘The news of his martyrdom is false’, according to the outlet’.”

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