Fox News is now confirming that, in addition to Ayatollah Khamenei, 40 top leaders have been killed in Operation Epic Fury — Israel and America’s calculated strike on Iran.
Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst confirmed the number on Saturday.
“Fox News has learned from a senior Israeli security official that as many as 40 senior Iranian security and regime figures were killed in strikes in the opening of the operation that Israel launched with the United States … one of the largest regime decapitation operations conducted in modern warfare history,” Yingst said.
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🚨 BREAKING: 40 TOP IRANIAN LEADERS were kiIIed during the US attack on Iran, per Fox News
Holy crap.
Trump practically decapitated the ENTIRE IRANIAN REGIME in one night. pic.twitter.com/McwudaBf1k
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 28, 2026
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stressed the need to “completely defang the Iranians” during a Fox News interview on Saturday.
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"We need to completely defang the Iranians, and when we do that, then we'll give the Iranian people the chance President Trump spoke about so eloquently." –@mikepompeo pic.twitter.com/5QyCodmLFe
— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) February 28, 2026
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