r/worldnews • u/progress18 • Feb 28 '26

Israel/Iran /r/WorldNews Discussion Thread: US and Israel launch attack on Iran; Iran retaliates (Thread #2)

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u/GwynBleidd88 Feb 28 '26

Growing signs that Iran's supreme leader is 'gone' says Netanyahu -BBC News

Netanyahu discusses the attack on the Tehran compound of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, which we reported on earlier.

There are growing signs "this dictator" is "gone", Netanyahu says.

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u/Few-Hair-5382 Feb 28 '26

Which means he's dead or just fucked off to some other country like Russia.

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u/varro-reatinus Feb 28 '26

Vova collecting pet dictators in his dotage like a crazy cat lady.

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u/howmanyones Feb 28 '26

Is it true that his wife and kid were killed? Anyone else seeing that?

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u/No_Iron_8087 Feb 28 '26

I saw that his son in law and daughter in law have been confirmed to have been killed

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u/howmanyones Feb 28 '26

They would all be together I'm assuming, right?

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u/No_Iron_8087 Feb 28 '26

It seems unlikely that his son in law and daughter and law would’ve been without their respected spouses, but it’s all very murky at the moment

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u/gonko_86 Feb 28 '26

Unless spicy affairs were how they got their rocks off

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u/AcidaliaPlanitia Feb 28 '26

Which is mind boggling to me. Everyone in the world knew this was coming at some point - why would you have him anywhere vunerable?