Israel strikes slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's underground military bunker

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) connected Friday announced that it had dismantled erstwhile Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s underground bunker successful Tehran.

"The underground compound was created by the authorities arsenic a basal for advancing subject activities and its extremist ideologies against the State of Israel and the Western world," the IDF said. "It spanned aggregate streets successful the bosom of Tehran and contained galore entrances and gathering rooms for elder members of the Iranian violent regime."

Israel aboriginal released an illustrated video which showed a fig of introduction points passim Tehran with tunnels starring to the underground bunker.

The Israel Defense Forces struck erstwhile Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's bunker successful Tehran. (IDF)

The fortified compound was straight nether wherever Khamenei and different authorities leaders were situated connected Saturday greeting erstwhile astir 50 of them were killed successful nether 50 seconds during the motorboat of Operation Epic Fury, a elder Israeli authoritative told Fox News.

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The authoritative said that Khamenei spent millions of dollars and a fig of years gathering the bunker, which helium did not usage connected the greeting of the strike. Sources acquainted with the quality accidental that Khamenei believed nary 1 had the guts to onslaught him.

The elder Israeli authoritative told Fox News that Khamenei's assurance was partially acknowledgment to an Israeli-American deception program that included messaging, signals and nationalist statements by President Donald Trump that suggested thing contiguous was coming. Top IDF commanders adjacent went location connected Friday night, hours earlier the strike, successful an effort to deceive Iranian leadership.

President Donald Trump confirmed the U.S. launched strikes connected Iran connected Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026.  (The White House via X Account/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Khamenei was killed connected the archetypal time of Operation Epic Fury aft ruling the Islamic Republic for much than 30 years. During that time, helium oversaw harsh interior crackdowns, including the astir caller 1 successful January, which targeted Iranian protesters, arsenic good arsenic planetary confrontations.

Fox News' Trey Yingst and Fox News Digital's Efrat Lachter and Ruth Marks Eglash contributed to this report.

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