The Liberty Daily 
(The Epoch Times)—The wife of Iran’s late leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, died from injuries that were sustained in U.S. and Israeli military strikes over the weekend, state media reported.
In a post on social media platform X on March 2, Iranian state-run PressTV wrote that Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh had succumbed “to injuries from US–Israeli attack,” without providing more details.
Other Iranian media outlets said that she had been in a coma since Saturday’s strikes on Khamenei’s office. Khamenei was confirmed to have been killed by President Donald Trump and Iranian regime officials over the past weekend. Many other top current and former Iranian leaders were also killed in the joint strikes.
“Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “This is not only Justice for the people of Iran, but for all Great Americans, and those people from many Countries throughout the World, that have been killed or mutilated by Khamenei and his gang of bloodthirsty THUGS.”
A post from Central Command (CENTCOM) on Monday said that four U.S. service members have been killed since the operation started over the past weekend. Trump and Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth have warned that the campaign could lead to more American casualties.
Other Iranian strikes have killed a handful of people in Gulf nations, including the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, and hundreds of flights have been affected at some of the world’s busiest airports.
The strikes came two days after an end to the latest U.S.-Iran talks aimed at curbing Tehran’s nuclear program. Washington has claimed that Iran was rebuilding its nuclear capacity in recent months. President Donald Trump this past week said that Iran was working on developing long-range missiles that could hit the United States.
In a news conference on March 2, Hegseth said that Iranian officials spent weeks stalling during the recent rounds of U.S. negotiations. He added that the latest strikes are designed to reduce Iran’s navy and end its nuclear and missile ambitions.
The operation, he added, had a “clear, devastating, decisive mission” to eliminate the threat of Iranian ballistic missiles, destroy the country’s navy, and ensure “no nukes.”
“No stupid rules of engagement, no nation-building quagmire, no democracy-building exercise, no politically correct wars. We fight to win, and we don’t waste time or lives,” Hegseth said.
Trump, in his video statements, has urged members of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and military police to lay down their arms and for the Iranian people “to take back your country.”
Iranian officials on Monday, however, have indicated that the regime would continue to fire barrages of missiles at U.S. assets and Israel. Iranian officials said through state-run Tasnim News that missiles were fired at an Israeli government complex in Tel Aviv, although it’s not clear whether the missiles landed.
The head of Iran’s security council, Ali Larijani, said in an article published Monday by Tasnim that Tehran does not seek negotiations with the Trump administration. This was seen as an attempt to refute a Wall Street Journal report indicating otherwise.
The U.S. has signaled that it is eventually willing to talk to Iran’s new leaders.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
