{"id":503944,"date":"2026-03-04T21:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/503944\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:30:06","slug":"kalshi-freezes-54-million-in-bets-on-khameneis-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/503944\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalshi freezes $54 million in bets on Khamenei&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"5HWX4VDCOVF35OGRHELNBDA66U\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">When he learned Saturday about the killing of Iran\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/obituaries\/2026\/02\/28\/ayatollah-khamenei-dead-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/a>, the Israeli-American business executive in New York was excited to cash in.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"DJKUA4RZJRBE5HD4WHTXU6BJGQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">On the prediction-market site Kalshi, the executive \u2014 who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to concern over what his friends would think \u2014 had placed two bets, totaling $3,460, that Khamenei would be \u201cout as Supreme Leader\u201d by March or April 1. His Kalshi app placed green check marks next to his bets, indicating he\u2019d won payouts worth more than $63,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When he learned Saturday about the killing of Iran\u2019s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Israeli-American business executive in New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28],"class_list":{"0":"post-503944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503944","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=503944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}