Ali Khamenei
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Ali Hosseini Khamenei was an Iranian politician and Shia cleric who served as the second supreme leader of Iran from 1989 until his assassination in 2026. A member of the Khamenei family who held the
Khamenei in 2017
Khamenei as a teenager
Khamenei in 1962
Khamenei in a protest in 1970 in Mashhad
2026 Iran war
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Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been at war with Iran and its regional allies. Hostilities broke out after US–Israeli airstrikes killed several Iranian officials, including S
Ali Khamenei
…involved in proxy wars with Israel and Saudi Arabia. In 2025 and 2026, tensions with Israel and the United States escalated into the Twelve-Day War and an ongoing conflict, during the latter of which Khamenei was assassinated. The Assembly of Experts elected his son Mojtaba as successor on 8 March. Khamenei's state funeral…
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu successfully lobbied the Trump administration for military intervention. (Pictured in July 2025)
27 February: US aircraft sit on the flight deck of USS Abraham Lincoln
3 March: Enghelab Square, Tehran
Six dead US soldiers from the 2026 Port Shuaiba drone attack are transferred to the US on 7 March 2026.