Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei killed in US-Israel attacks

President Donald Trump said Saturday that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is dead following a barrage of joint US-Israeli strikes on the nation.

The president celebrated Khamenei’s killing in a Truth Social post, calling him “one of the most evil people in History.”

“This is not only Justice for the people of Iran, but for all Great Americans, and those people from many Countries throughout the World, that have been killed or mutilated by Khamenei and his gang of bloodthirsty THUGS,” Trump wrote, adding that other regime leaders were killed as well.

The announcement came after Israeli sources concluded earlier on Saturday that Khamenei and other senior Iranian officials were dead, though no public proof has surfaced yet. In his post, Trump again urged Iranians to overthrow the current regime, calling it the “single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their Country.”

The Saturday attack came after Trump officials concluded that negotiations with Iranian leaders had stalled and that they were not likely to agree to the United States’ demands to abandon what the US claimed were efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon.