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Trump says U.S. destroyed 9 Iranian warships
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Pope Leo condemns "spiral of violence" in Iran strikes
    • Barak Ravid,
    • Marc Caputo
    17 hours ago
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    Politics & Policy
    Two months, two tracks: How Trump chose war with Iran
    Trump monitors Operation Epic Fury with CIA Director John Ratcliffe (L), Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.

    Daniel Torok/White House via Getty Images

    As Israeli bombs fell on the supreme leader's compound in Tehran on Saturday morning, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was meeting above ground with several of his top advisers.

    • He never saw it coming.

    Why it matters: The joint U.S.-Israeli operation that killed Khamenei was the culmination of two months in which President Trump pursued both diplomacy and war — on parallel tracks. On Friday, he chose war.

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    • Barak Ravid,
    • Zachary Basu,
    • Avery Lotz
    Updated 19 hours ago
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    World
    Iranian state media confirms Supreme Leader Khamenei is dead
    Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei greets the crowd as he attends a program held in the capital Tehran, Iran on Jan. 17.

    Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei greets the crowd as he attends a program held in the capital Tehran, Iran on Jan. 17. Photo: Iranian Leader Press Office/Anadolu via Getty Images

    Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in an Israeli strike Saturday as part of a massive joint military operation between the U.S. and Israel, Iranian state media confirmed.

    The latest: The Iranian government announced 40 days of public mourning following the "martyrdom" of the 86-year-old ayatollah, who had ruled Iran for over 36 years.

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    • Herb Scribner
    23 hours ago
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    Politics & Policy
    How Trump's Iran gamble breaks from past regime overthrows
    Photo illustration of President Trump in front of map of the Middle East and a photo of missiles produced by Iran's armed forces displayed near a row of Iranian flags

    Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Photos: Majid Saeedi and Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    President Trump's bid to topple Iran's regime marks a sharp break from two decades of U.S. intervention playbooks across multiple presidencies.

    The big picture: Trump's weekend strikes on Iran — and his explicit call for an uprising — diverge from how the U.S. approached regime pressure in Iraq and Venezuela, historians tell Axios. The gamble signals a more unpredictable stretch of his foreign policy ahead as he openly threatens force elsewhere.

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