India, March 1 -- President Donald Trump on Truth Social announced that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei was dead. This came after attacks on his Tehran compound as Israel and US mounted an offensive.

An Israeli official also told Reuters that they had found Khamenei's body. However, Iran countered the narrative and Fars News also reported that Trump's claim was baseless. "It is worth noting that Trump has a long record of spreading false and fabricated news," the report said, as per NBC News, who translated the Farsi text to English.

"Among previous examples of this behavior is his claim about the fall of the city of Mashhad, which was later shown to have no factual basis and to have been merely media sensationalism," the repor...