Assassinations of Khamenei & 40+ senior Iranian officials on Day 1 prove massive success of Operation Epic Fury

WASHINGTON, DC — “Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong; for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away.”

So begins Psalm 37, one of my favorite passages in the Scriptures.

What a great section of the Bible to meditate on today.

Why?

Because the most wicked leader in the world is dead.

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, was the longest-serving tyrant on planet Earth, coming to power on June 4, 1989.

He terrorized his own nation — and terrorized Americans, Israelis, moderate Arabs, and many others — for nearly 37 years.

But Khamenei was finally assassinated on Saturday in a joint operation by the United States and Israel.

He is now burning in the fires of eternal Hell, and rightly so.

The fact that Khamenei was killed on Day One — along with more than 40 other senior Iranian military and political officials — demonstrates what a massive success this extraordinary and historic joint military operation by U.S. and Israeli forces has already been.

And there is much more to come.

Khamenei’s assassination on the first day was a true miracle that required precise intelligence, pinpoint-accurate military targeting, and total surprise.

Both President Donald J. Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and their teams deserve enormous credit.

Indeed, they will go down in history for having achieved what none of their predecessors even dared to attempt.

Their senior advisers say that they have shown Trump and Netanyahu conclusive proof of Khamenei’s dead body.

Khamenei led the most wicked regime on the planet since the death of the Islamic Republic’s first wicked Supreme Leader, Ruhollah Ali Khomeini, who ousted the pro-American and pro-Israel Shah of Iran and arrived in Tehran to seize power on February 1, 1979.

Khomeini ruled for a decade until his death in the spring of 1989. Previously Iran’s president from 1981 to 1989, Khamenei took over from Khomeini and proved far more diabolical and bloodthirsty than his mentor.

Khamenei held to a sick and twisted Shia Muslim End Times theology.

He ran an apocalyptic, genocidal death cult whose explicit mission was to destroy America, destroy Israel, destroy Judeo-Christian civilization, and bring about the End of Days and the return and global reign of the Twelfth Imam, also known as the Mahdi.

This is precisely why he wanted to build, buy, or steal nuclear weapons.

This is also why he wanted ballistic missiles powerful enough to hit every American base in the Middle East, devastate the capitals and cities of our Arab allies, and deliver a nuclear knockout blow to the world’s only Jewish state.

And it’s why he was feverishly trying to develop and field intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching American cities and wiping them off the face of the Earth.

But now he is dead.

Thank God that President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu were not intimidated.

Thank God they worked together to stop World War III — and a Second Holocaust — despite the intense resistance of forces on the American Left and Right, and vicious international opposition as well.

Beginning in Trump’s first term, Trump and Netanyahu systematically applied economic, political, and military pressure on Khamenei and his fellow tyrants in Tehran.

When Trump came back to power in the wake of the Iranian-orchestrated seven-front war against Israel — the worst war in Israel’s modern history, one that began on October 7, 2023, and is not yet over after 875 days — he and Netanyahu began developing a detailed plan to finish the job once and for all.

Today, their plan worked — spectacularly.

And Khamenei was not the only player taken off the chessboard.

He was just the king.

Here is a partial list of other senior Iranian military and political officials who were assassinated on Saturday, according to the Israel Defense Forces and U.S. intelligence officials.

• Aziz Nasirzadeh — Defense Minister of Iran

• Saleh Asadi — Head of the Intelligence Directorate of the Khatam al-Anbiya emergency command, and a senior intelligence officer of the Supreme Command of the Iranian Forces

• Ali Shamkhani — Secretary of the Iranian Security Council

• Mohammad Pakpour — Commander of the IRGC since Operation “Rising Lion” and one of the leaders of the “destruction of Israel” plan

• Mohammad Shirazi — Head of the Military Bureau of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei since 1989

• Hossein Jabal Amelian — Deputy Defense Minister and chairman of the SPND Organization

• Reza Mozaffari-Nia — Former deputy defense minister and former chairman of the SPND Organization