{"id":502894,"date":"2026-03-04T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/502894\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:00:07","slug":"iran-begins-mourning-khamenei-and-hits-u-s-sites-in-the-gulf-as-israel-targets-tehrans-new-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/502894\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran begins mourning Khamenei and hits U.S. sites in the Gulf as Israel targets Tehran&#8217;s new leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"37\">The Israel Defense Forces have killed the highest-ranking commander of Iran\u2019s Quds Force, an IDF spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"3a\">The IDF killed Davoud Alizadeh, responsible for Iranian activity in Lebanon, Avichay Adraee said. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/who-are-iran-s-secretive-quds-forces-n1110156\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Quds Force<\/a> is the Islamic Revolutionary Guard\u2019s force that handles Iran\u2019s relationship with regional militias.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"3d\">\u201cHe instructed Hezbollah to attack Israel in defense of Iran, rather than in defense of the Lebanese state and its citizens,\u201d Adraee <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/avichayadraee\/status\/2028893010159690214?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said on X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"3g\">Operatives working for Iran\u2019s government have 24 hours to leave Lebanon, Adraee said. He said Israel will not tolerate \u201crepresentatives of the Iranian terrorist regime in Lebanon\u201d any longer, at least after that 24-hour stretch is up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"3j\">\u201cThere will be no safe haven for representatives of the Iranian regime in Lebanon, and the IDF will target them wherever they are found,\u201d Adraee said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Israel Defense Forces have killed the highest-ranking commander of Iran\u2019s Quds Force, an IDF spokesperson said. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-502894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}