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5:30 PM ET, February 28, 2026

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Axios:
ISRAEL SAYS IRAN SUPREME LEADER KHAMENEI IS DEAD … - An Israeli official confirmed to Axios that Khamenei is dead, according to Israeli intelligence. … His death is a massive blow to the regime and could accelerate its collapse, which U.S. and Israeli officials have stated as a goal of their operation.
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New York Times:
Live Updates: U.S. and Israel Conduct Strikes on Iran  —  Large explosions were reported in Tehran, according to several residents, and air-raid sirens rang across Israel.  —  Here's the latest.  —  The United States and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday, according to American and Israeli officials …
Abbie Cheeseman / Washington Post:
U.S. and Israel launch attack on Iran as Trump calls for regime change  —  The United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran, as President Donald Trump announced “major combat operations” on Saturday, vowing to decimate Tehran's military and fuel a change in government.
Erin Banco / Reuters:
Exclusive: Prior to Iran attacks, CIA assessed Khamenei would be replaced by hardline IRGC elements if killed, sources say  —  In the run-up to the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Saturday, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency assessed that even if Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei …
NBC News:
Live updates: U.S. and Israel launch major attack on Iran  —  President Donald Trump urged Iranians to “take over your government” when the strikes are over.  Tehran responded by targeting American bases and other targets throughout the region.  —  ADD NBC NEWS TO GOOGLE  —  What to know
Associated Press:
Live updates: Trump announces ‘major combat operations’ in Iran  —  U.S. President Donald Trump has appealed to the Iranian people to “take over your government.”  —  The United States and Israel launched an attack Saturday on Iran, with the first apparent strike happening near the offices of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Reuters:
Senior IRGC, regime officials killed in Israel-US strikes on Iran, source says  —  Trump confirms US operation in Iran, tells IRGC to lay down arms  • Blasts heard in Tehran as Khamenei moved to ‘secure location’  • Netanyahu says objective to end Ayatollah's regime
Reuters:
Live: Khamenei's body has been found and he is confirmed dead, Israeli official says  —  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there were many signs indicating Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “is no longer”, without explicitly confirming his death.
France 24:
US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says  —  At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday.  Washington has not commented on the reported strike.
Reuters:
Exclusive: Ahead of strikes, Trump was told Iran attack is high risk, high reward  —  Ahead of the U.S. attack on Iran, President Donald Trump received briefings that not only delivered blunt assessments about the risk of major U.S. casualties but also touted the prospect of a generational shift …
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Exclusive: Trump floats “off ramps” after attacking Iran  —  President Trump told Axios on Saturday that he has several “off ramps” from Operation Epic Fury, the extraordinary U.S. military campaign against Iran that he launched early Saturday morning.
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Trump's Enormous Gamble on Regime Change in Iran  —  A few paths to success, many to failure  —  The United States has gone to war against Iran.  America has only one ally—Israel—in this operation (the Arab states of the Gulf, who fear the Iranian regime, are targets of Iran …
Al Jazeera:
Israel strikes two schools in Iran, killing more than 80 people  —  State media says Israeli attack on girls' school in the city of Minab in the south of the country kills dozens.  —  An Israeli strike has hit an elementary girls' school in Minab, a city in the Hormozgan province of southern Iran …
Associated Press:
Read President Trump's statement on Iran in full  —  U.S. President Donald Trump said in an 8-minute video posted on his Truth Social platform that the U.S. has begun “major combat operations in Iran.”  He claimed Iran has continued to develop its nuclear program and plans to develop missiles …
Washington Post:
Trump: ‘Freedom’ for Iran is goal of ‘major military operation’  —  The president spoke to The Washington Post early Saturday after announcing that the U.S. had begun striking Iran to bring about regime change.  —  President Donald Trump told The Washington Post early Saturday that his main concern is …
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Trump Has No Plan for the Iranian People
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Trump's case for the Iran war makes no sense
Discussion: Semafor and Editorial Board
Clarissa-Jan Lim / MS NOW:
Trump says Iranian supreme leader killed in strikes by U.S. and Israel
Associated Press:
Israel launches attack on Iran's capital with US help as tensions high over nuclear talks
Niall Ferguson / The Free Press:
Khamenei May Be Gone, but Iran 2026 Is Not Iraq 2003
Discussion: Reason and The Moderate Voice
Bartosz Brzeziński / Politico:   Poland says it had advance knowledge of US-Israel strikes on Iran
Paul Musgrave / Systematic Hatreds:
An Unpopular, Doomed, Bloody War
Discussion: New York Times and THE FARCE
Alexandra Koch / Fox News:
US, Israel launch attack on Iran as Trump announces ‘major combat operations’
New York Times:
Chaos and Panic Grip Tehran as Airstrikes Shake City
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Fox News:
Fetterman praises Operation Epic Fury: Trump is 'willing to do what's right'
New York Times:
Congress Faces War Powers Votes in Wake of Iran Strikes
David Frum / The Atlantic:
The Paradox of Trump's Iran Attack
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’  —  A small stable of doctors gave V.I.P. medical services to the sex offender and the women around him.  Some doctors bent or broke the ethical rules of their profession.  —  A plastic surgeon from Mount Sinai closed …
Discussion: NewsMax.com
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The Guardian:
Explosions rock Bahrain, Dubai, Jordan and Kuwait as war spreads across Middle East
 
 
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