{"id":42139,"date":"2026-02-28T15:04:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T15:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=42139"},"modified":"2026-02-28T15:04:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T15:04:39","slug":"irans-top-leadership-in-perfect-health-local-media-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=42139","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s top leadership \u2018in perfect health\u2019, local media claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Iran\u2019s senior officials are \u201cin perfect health\u201d, including President Masoud Pezeshkian, parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and security chief Ali Larijani,\u00a0the\u00a0Fars news agency reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Israeli sources have claimed to have targeted and succeeded in attacking the president and senior Iranian leaders, official sources within the country report that senior regime officials, including the heads of the armed forces, are in perfect health,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: Trump says US carrying out &#8216;major combat operations&#8217; in Iran<\/p>\n<p>The first wave of US and Israeli strikes in what the Pentagon named \u2018Operation Epic Fury\u2019 mainly targeted Iranian officials, Reuters reported, quoting a \u201csource familiar with the matter&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>An Israeli official said Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Pezeshkian were both targeted, but the result of the strikes was not clear. A source with knowledge of the matter had earlier told Reuters that Khamenei was not in Tehran and had been transferred to a secure location.<\/p>\n<p>According to Reuters, an Iranian source close to the establishment said several senior commanders in Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards and political officials had been killed.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day,\u00a0the US and Israel jointly launched strikes on Iran that\u00a0pushed the Middle East into renewed military confrontation and further dimmed hopes for a diplomatic solution to the West\u2019s long-standing effort to denuclearise Iran, despite Tehran\u2019s repeated assertions that it will not pursue nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Iran targeted Israel and US bases in the Middle East. Explosions were reported in Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s senior officials are \u201cin perfect health\u201d, including President Masoud Pezeshkian, parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and security chief Ali Larijani,\u00a0the\u00a0Fars news agency reported on Saturday. \u201cWhile Israeli sources have claimed to have targeted and succeeded in attacking the president and senior Iranian leaders, official sources within the country report that senior regime officials, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}