Iranian state media reports that the wife of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has died from injuries sustained during weekend military strikes that killed multiple senior officials.
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The wife of Iran’s late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has died from injuries sustained during U.S.–Israeli military strikes over the weekend, according to Iranian state media.
Iran’s state-run PressTV announced March 2 in a post on the social media platform X that Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh had succumbed “to injuries from US–Israeli attack,” though no additional details were provided.
Other Iranian media outlets reported that Bagherzadeh had been in a coma since strikes targeted Khamenei’s office Saturday. Khamenei’s death was confirmed over the weekend by President Donald Trump and Iranian regime officials. Several other current and former Iranian leaders were also reported killed in the coordinated attacks.
“Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “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.”
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) stated Monday that four American service members have been killed since the operation began over the weekend. Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have acknowledged the potential for additional U.S. casualties as operations continue.
Iranian retaliatory strikes have also resulted in fatalities in Gulf nations, including the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, and disrupted air travel across the region, affecting hundreds of flights at major international airports.
The military campaign followed the collapse of the latest round of U.S.–Iran negotiations aimed at limiting Tehran’s nuclear program. U.S. officials have asserted that Iran had resumed rebuilding nuclear capabilities in recent months. Trump stated this past week that Iran was developing long-range missiles capable of striking the United States.
During a March 2 news conference, Hegseth said Iranian officials had stalled for weeks during negotiations. He described the current operation as targeting Iran’s naval forces and seeking to eliminate both its nuclear and missile programs.
The campaign, he said, has a “clear, devastating, decisive mission” to neutralize Iranian ballistic missile threats, dismantle the country’s navy, and ensure “no nukes.”
“No stupid rules of engagement, no nation-building quagmire, no democracy-building exercise, no politically correct wars. We fight to win, and we don’t waste time or lives,” Hegseth said.
In public remarks and video statements, Trump has urged members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and military police to lay down their arms and called on the Iranian population “to take back your country.”
Iranian officials signaled Monday that missile barrages against U.S. assets and Israel would continue. State-run Tasnim News reported that missiles were fired toward an Israeli government complex in Tel Aviv, though it remains unclear whether any of the projectiles struck their intended target.
Ali Larijani, head of Iran’s security council, wrote in an article published Monday by Tasnim that Tehran does not seek negotiations with the Trump administration. His remarks were viewed as a rebuttal to a Wall Street Journal report suggesting otherwise.
U.S. officials have indicated that Washington remains open to engaging with new leadership in Tehran once a transition becomes clear.
The latest developments mark a further escalation in a rapidly unfolding regional conflict that has reshaped Iran’s leadership structure and drawn in multiple nations across the Middle East.
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