BREAKING: Ayatollah dead - Supreme Leader reportedly killed after strikes, Iran say still alive

‘We’re not going to put up with it any longer’: President Trump announces ‘massive and ongoing operation’ against Iran

. . . "President Donald Trump posted an eight-minute video to Truth Social announcing the “massive and ongoing” attacks, identified as Operation Epic Fury, which are targeting Iran’s military and its nuclear program, as well as to facilitate a change in its government.

“Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime, a vicious group of very hard, terrible people,” the president declared in the video posted Saturday at 2:30 a.m. EST. “Its menacing activities directly endanger the United States, our troops, our bases overseas, and our allies throughout the world.”

“We are going to destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground,” Trump vowed. “We are going to annihilate their navy, we are going to ensure that the region’s terrorist proxies can no longer destabilize the region and the world.”

Iran, he claimed, “attempted to rebuild their nuclear program and continue developing long range missiles that can now threaten our very good friends and allies in Europe, our troops stationed overseas and could soon reach our American homeland.” . . .

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"BREAKING: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has reportedly been killed in the military strikes, according to unconfirmed reports from Israel's Channel 12. Iran's Foreign Minister has denied these reports. GB News has not independently verified these claims and the situation remains developing. This comes as US and Israeli forces launched major combat operations against Iran, with explosions reported across multiple Middle Eastern countries including Bahrain, UAE and Kuwait."

‘It’s Insane What They Did’: Mark Halperin Unloads On Legacy Media For Framing Iran Story Like Trump Was ‘Lying’

‘It’s Insane What They Did’: Mark Halperin Unloads On Legacy Media For Framing Iran Story Like Trump Was ‘Lying’

Political analyst Mark Halperin on Thursday criticized the media for using an early intelligence assessment of the damage America’s Saturday bombings inflicted on Iran’s nuclear program to portray President Donald Trump as a liar.

Trump said on Saturday that the bombings “totally obliterated” Iran’s crucial nuclear sites, but CNN and The New York Times published reports, based on an intelligence report, finding that the attack may have only delayed Iran’s nuclear program by a few months. Halperin, on “The Morning Meeting,” said Trump was exaggerating the destruction, but the news outlets’ reports were attempts to downplay the effectiveness of the strikes — despite the lack of certainty of the intelligence assessment.

“I thought I understood how the media works, but apparently I don’t. We are today where we were yesterday. The president continues to overstate the case,” Halperin said. “The people around him, like the Secretary of State and his spokesperson and the Secretary of Defense [Pete Hegseth], pretend attitudinally and stylistically and tonally that they’re agreeing with the president, but they’re not actually going as far as the president in most cases in qualifying the damage done to the Iranian nuclear program.”

“And then the media is just — it’s insane. Because Pete Hegseth is correct. They put out a fragment of a preliminary report and they framed it as if the president was lying. It’s insane what they did,” he continued. “The fragment of a preliminary report by one part of the intelligence community should not have been cast, as CNN and The New York Times did, as some definitive judgment on whether it worked or not, or how effective it was. It’s insane. And it opens the door to let the Secretary of Defense and the president have the debate about fake news.”

Both CNN and The New York Times noted in their pieces that the intelligence assessment contradicted Trump’s assertions.

“[T]he early findings are at odds with President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the strikes ‘completely and totally obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities,” CNN wrote.

“The initial damage assessment suggests that President Trump’s claim that Iran’s nuclear facilities were ‘obliterated’ was overstated,” the NYT wrote.

Both CNN and the NYT used unnamed sources for their reports.

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Iranian government all contradicted CNN’s article on the leaked preliminary DIA damage report, generally asserting that the strikes caused substantial damage to Iran’s nuclear program.

The DIA later described its assessment as “low confidence.”

Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly criticized the use of anonymous sources in CNN’s report on “CUOMO” Wednesday. CNN was first to report on the intelligence assessment.

Israeli media say 'growing indications' that Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in US and Israeli strike

 Daily Mail Online

Aerial photographs show the Iranian supreme leader's Tehran compound razed to rubble after Donald Trump unleashed joint US-Israeli airstrikes on the city

"There are 'growing indications' that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in the first wave of the US and Israeli strikes earlier today, it is being claimed.

"Israeli media outlet Channel 12 said unnamed Israeli sources had revealed there were 'growing indications' the leader had been killed during this morning's air strikes or that he was 'hurt at the very least'.

"Officials had earlier reported that the strikes had caused 'very significant harm' to the leadership of the Iranian regime and its military commanders.

"Khamenei has not been heard from since the US and Israel launched their dual attack on Iran on Saturday morning. 

"Israeli sources said today that President Donald Trump specifically targeted Iran's supreme leader in its first wave of joint missile strikes with Israel. 

"The initial blasts are believed to have taken place close to the offices of Khamenei in the capital, Tehran. 

"The results of the strikes are unclear, an Israeli official said, with earlier reports suggesting that the supreme leader had been moved out of Tehran to a secure location. 

"Both Khamenei's palace and compound in Tehran are reported to have been completely destroyed in today's operation, but Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghch claimed the Ayatollah is alive 'as far as I know'." . . .  More...