President Trump confirmed that the joint US-Israel operation in Iran killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in his first statement since he announced the attack early on Saturday morning. As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, Trump spoke briefly by phone with Axios and threatened to “go long and take over the whole thing.” He said his other option is to “end it in two or three days and tell the Iranians: ‘See you again in a few years if you start rebuilding [your nuclear and missile programs].” https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/just-trump-threatens-take-whole-thing-after-iran/ Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst reported earlier on the death of Khamenei, adding that “Israelis say they are still striking targets inside Iran.” WATCH: Shortly after 4:30 pm ET on Saturday, Trump posted confirmation that the Ayatollah is dead, crediting the United States’s “Intelligence and Highly Sophisticated Tracking Systems” and noting that “there was not a thing he, or the other leaders that have been killed along with him, could do.” Dozens of top Iranian officials were also killed.