Iranian state media confirms death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei; news anchor breaks down on air

Iranian state media announced Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's death early on Sunday (March 1), in air strikes by Israel and the US that pulverized his central Tehran compound, after decades of efforts to resolve the dispute over Iran's nuclear program diplomatically failed. Trump, making the biggest foreign-policy gamble of his presidency after campaigning for reelection as a "peace president," said the strikes were aimed at ending a decades-long threat from Iran and ensuring it could not develop a nuclear weapon.