{"id":509898,"date":"2026-02-28T15:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T15:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/509898\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T15:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T15:09:10","slug":"trump-confirms-us-bombing-in-tehran-labelled-operation-epic-fury-supreme-leader-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-targeted-bahrain-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/509898\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump confirms US bombing in Tehran labelled Operation Epic Fury; Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei targeted; Bahrain attacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has appeared on US television, giving a wide-ranging response to the situation after the US and Israel began strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Araghchi was asked to confirm \u201cwith specificity\u201d that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian were alive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as I know, yes, they are alive,\u201d Araghchi said in the exclusive NBC News interview broadcast live on Saturday morning (Washington time).Iran<\/p>\n<p>Araghchi said \u201calmost all officials\u201d were safe, although one or two commanders may have been killed, \u201cbut that is not a big problem\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>However, Israeli media suggested a \u201chigh probability\u201d that Khamenei was killed or severely wounded.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaking to NBC News today.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/aee63da388010ab5e3fabae3fe02e89623bd74daeca3f604155dcb0147aff4f5.png\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 bnWZMz\"\/>Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaking to NBC News today.NBC News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has appeared on US television, giving a wide-ranging response to the situation after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-509898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}