{"id":316433,"date":"2026-03-01T15:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T15:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/316433\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T15:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T15:03:10","slug":"former-iranian-president-ahmadinejad-reported-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/316433\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Iranian President Ahmadinejad reported killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"41\">Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was killed Saturday during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.israelhayom.com\/2026\/02\/28\/global-media-coverage-iran-strike\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a wave of strikes in Tehran<\/a>, the Iranian news agency ILNA (the Iranian Labour News Agency) reported. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.israelhayom.com\/2021\/06\/13\/ahmadinejad-israel-infiltrated-our-counterintelligence-services\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ahmadinejad<\/a> repeatedly claimed the Holocaust didn&#8217;t happen and consistently said that Israel should disappear.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1123137 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Iran_US_Israel_37065-1edc7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"  \/>President Donald Trump talking with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles as Secretary of State Marco Rubio listens at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., during Operation Epic Fury on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026 \/ Daniel Torok\/The White House via AP Daniel Torok\/The White House via AP<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"42\">According to the report, the strike targeted the Narmak neighborhood (a middle-class district in east Tehran) in the eastern sector of the city, where Ahmadinejad resided. He was reportedly killed alongside his security guards.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"43\">While Ahmadinejad held the presidency from 2005-2013 \u2013 a period marked by intense confrontation with the West over Iran&#8217;s nuclear program \u2013 his influence had waned significantly in the decade since. In recent years, he found himself pushed to the political periphery, often clashing with the supreme leader&#8217;s inner circle.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"44\">Iranian officials in Tehran have not yet provided official confirmation of the former president&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was killed Saturday during a wave of strikes in Tehran, the Iranian news&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-316433","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\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}