"30 bombs" were dropped to kill Khamenei.

"30 bombs" were dropped to kill Khamenei.

Satellite images show plumes of black smoke rising from the compound of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Tehran, Iran, February 28, 2026

'30 bombs' were dropped on the compound of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

This is what the influential US media outlet The Wall Street Journal reported. The Wall Street Journal said that Israeli warplanes dropped 30 bombs on Khamenei's compound. The compound caught fire and was destroyed.

The BBC report also said the same thing. The BBC said that Khamenei's compound was attacked at around 9:40 am local time on Saturday. Israeli warplanes used 30 bombs in the attack.

The United States and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran on Saturday morning. This morning, Khamenei and several other top officials in the country were killed in an attack on a compound in the center of the Iranian capital, Tehran.

The New York Times reported that just before the US and Israel were preparing to attack Iran, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) received a very important piece of information. The CIA learned that a meeting of top Iranian officials would be held at a complex in the center of Tehran on Saturday morning. Khamenei would also be at the meeting.

The CIA immediately informed Israel of this information. The US and Israel changed the schedule of the attack to take advantage of this new intelligence.

The BBC report said that there is an indication of a division of labor in this operation. Israel is focused on targeting those in the Iranian leadership. And the US is mainly attacking Iranian military targets.