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(1 Mar 2026)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Los Angeles - 28 February 2026
1. Wide of Iranian-Americans and others celebrating following U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, waving flags including pre-Islamic Revolution flag
2. Mid of person waving flag
3. Close of woman wearing hat reading (English): "Make Iran great again"
4. People chanting UPSOUND (English): "(US) President (Donald) Trump, thank you."
5. Mid of woman kissing poster depicting U.S. President Donald Trump and reading (English): "Make Iran great again"
6. Mid of sign reading (English): "Thank you Trump + Bibi (nickname of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu)"
7. Various of people at rally
STORYLINE:
Crowds of Iranian-Americans rallied in Los Angeles on Saturday in a show of support for the US and Israeli strikes on Iran.

Those gathered waved pre-Islamic Revolution flags aloft and rejoiced as they shouted their thanks to U.S. President Donald Trump following the major attack by Israel and the United States.

A joint U.S. and Israeli aerial bombardment targeted Iranian military and governmental sites on Saturday, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian state media confirmed early Sunday.

Trump announced the death hours earlier, saying it gave Iranians their “greatest chance” to “take back” their country.

State media reported that the 86-year-old was killed in an airstrike targeting his compound in downtown Tehran. Satellite photos from Airbus showed the site heavily bombed.

His death at his office “showed that he consistently stood among the people and at the forefront of his responsibilities, confronting what officials call global arrogance,” state TV said.

Iran’s Cabinet warned that this “great crime will never go unanswered."

Iranians initially cheered from rooftops and their homes in Tehran, Iran’s capital, when rumors first started to spread late Saturday of Khamenei’s death.

“Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead,” Trump wrote in a social media post.

He warned of “heavy and pinpoint bombing” that he said would continue throughout the week and even beyond, part of a lethal assault the U.S. has justified as necessary to disable the country's nuclear capabilities.

The attack opened a stunning new chapter in U.S. intervention in Iran, carried the potential for retaliatory violence and a wider war, and represented a startling flex of military might for an American president who swept into office on an “America First” platform and vowed to keep out of “forever wars.”

The killing of Khamenei in the second Trump administration assault on Iran in eight months appeared certain to create a leadership vacuum given the absence of a known successor and because the 86-year-old supreme leader had final say on all major policies during his decades in power.

He led Iran’s clerical establishment and its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, the two main centers of power in the governing theocracy.

As reports trickled out about the death, eyewitnesses in Tehran told The Associated Press that some residents were rejoicing, blowing whistles and letting out ululations.

Iran, which responded to the strikes with its own counterassault, warned of retribution.

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