Published Jul 22, 2026, 1:00 AM ET · Updated 4 months ago · 1 source

Iran’s foreign minister describes moment of attack that killed Khamenei

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Iran’s foreign minister describes moment of attack that killed Khamenei

Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, has described how he was pulled from the rubble of a leadership compound after the US-Israeli airstrike that killed the country’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, on the first day of the war, and has survived since by constantly moving around the capital, Tehran, by car. In an interview with the Iranian journalist Javad Mogouyi, Araghchi confirmed Israel and the US had accurate intelligence on the location of Khamenei and other officials, enabling them to ta