Reported claim

“Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a joint U.S.-Israeli airstrike on February 28, 2026, the first day of the war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran.”

Strengthened after Al Jazeera Arabic reported it.

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