View image in fullscreen The strike on Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s compound in Tehran. The Tehran residence of the former Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was also destroyed, and his fate was not immediately known. Back in Washington, Trump declared himself “not thrilled”. It was critical for sustaining a major aerial war as well as in helping defend Israel against the inevitable Iranian backlash. The US had already been sucked in by its volatile president to a major war that quickly became regional.

Source: The Guardian March 01, 2026 00:34 UTC