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Trump says 48 leaders killed in strikes on Iran

President Trump claims 48 Iranian leaders were killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes aimed at dismantling Iran's leadership and military, with confirmed U.S. casualties and ongoing regional retaliation.

  • Sunday, United States President Donald Trump said 48 Iranian leaders were killed in joint U.S.-Israeli strikes after the campaign launched Saturday.
  • Planned for months, U.S. and Israeli intelligence tracked targets and seized a rare Tehran meeting vulnerability on Saturday.
  • U.S. Central Command reported sinking an Iranian warship at a Gulf of Oman dock and destroying nine Iranian naval ships; CENTCOM later confirmed three American service members killed and five seriously wounded.
  • Following the strikes, Iranian authorities confirmed the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iran launched hundreds of missile and drone attacks, closing regional airports including Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi.
  • Trump said Iran's new leadership signalled willingness to negotiate and that operations are ongoing, with remaining Iranian naval vessels to be sunk soon and the conflict envisaged to last four weeks.
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In conversation with a journalist, Donald Trump combines the death of Ayatollah Khamenei with a previous murder plot against himself.

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President Donald Trump of the United States stated that the Iranian authorities had tried twice to organize his assassination, but he was the first to eliminate Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic.

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