Smoke rises over the city center after an Israeli army launches second wave of airstrikes on Iran on February 28, 2026. | Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images Editor’s note, February 28, 5:30 pm ET: President Donald Trump announced on Saturday afternoon that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in the airstrikes. The following story was published earlier on February 28, before the news of Khamenei’s death. With the decision to once again launch major airstrikes on Iran, in conjunction with Israel, and call for the overthrow of the Iranian government, President...

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