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DANGEROUS ESCALATION
The Morning Standard
|March 02, 2026
IRANIAN Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was assassinated by Israel and the United States in a major attack on Iran, throwing the future of the Islamic Republic into doubt and raising the risk of protracted regional instability.
This videograb combo shows the sequence of large-scale strikes on “the headquarters of the Iranian terror regime” in Tehran on March 1
(PTI)
News agency IRNA announced the 86-year-old's death on Sunday after a joint US-Israeli aerial bombardment targeted Iranian military and governmental sites.
US President Donald Trump threatened that the “heavy and pinpoint bombing” would continue through the week.
This story is from the March 02, 2026 edition of The Morning Standard.
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