{"id":10683,"date":"2026-03-01T16:44:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=10683"},"modified":"2026-03-01T16:44:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:44:53","slug":"war-former-iran-president-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-killed-in-us-israel-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2026\/03\/01\/war-former-iran-president-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-killed-in-us-israel-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"War: Former Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad killed in US-Israel strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" class=\"left relative\">\n<p>Former Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been killed in an alleged joint Israeli\u2013US airstrike, according to Iran\u2019s semi-official Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA) report on Sunday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-11\">\n<div class=\"JC-WIDGET-DMROOT\" data-widget-id=\"a294226aacc9140b01ca0c5d86fe7701\" data-observe=\"true\" data-load=\"true\" data-id=\"1772382093372\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It was reported that the strike targeted Ahmadinejad\u2019s residence in the Narmak district of northeast Tehran, killing him along with several members of his security detail.<\/p>\n<p>International media sources suggested the strike likely occurred late Saturday, though independent confirmation has not been immediately available.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-11\">\n<div class=\"JC-WIDGET-DMROOT\" data-widget-id=\"a294226aacc9140b01ca0c5d86fe7701\" data-observe=\"true\" data-load=\"true\" data-id=\"1772382093371\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ahmadinejad served as Iran\u2019s president from 2005 to 2013. Before his presidency, he held key positions, including governor of Ardabil Province and mayor of Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Following the completion of his two presidential terms, he was appointed by then-Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to the Expediency Discernment Council, a 48-member advisory body that advises the Office of the Supreme Leader and mediates disputes within Iran\u2019s governing institutions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-11\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-12\">\n<div class=\"JC-WIDGET-DMROOT\" data-widget-id=\"7463ddc70cd9c827bb3848a5e50fa4d0\" data-observe=\"true\" data-load=\"true\" data-id=\"1772382093366\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-bot\" class=\"left\">\n<div id=\"mvp-prev-next-wrap\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-prev-post-wrap left relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-prev-next-cont left relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-prev-cont-out right relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been killed in an alleged joint Israeli\u2013US airstrike, according to Iran\u2019s semi-official Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA) report on Sunday. It was reported that the strike targeted Ahmadinejad\u2019s&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10685,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683\/revisions\/10685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}