Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's ex-president who said 'Israel must be wiped off the map,' killed in Israeli airstrikes

[CountAllVotes]

Source: California Post

Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — a polarizing hardliner who became the face of Tehran’s nuclear defiance and incendiary anti-Israel rhetoric — was reportedly killed in Israeli airstrikes at the outset of the military operation inside Iran.

A report by the Israeli media outlet Ma’ariv stated that Ahmadinejad was under house arrest at the time and was killed in a targeted strike on his residence.

Ahmadinejad served as Iran’s sixth president from 2005 to 2013, rising from relative obscurity as mayor of Tehran to defeat establishment figure Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in a surprise 2005 runoff.

His disputed 2009 reelection triggered the mass “Green Movement” protests, which were violently suppressed by security forces in one of the most serious internal crises of the Islamic Republic.



Read more: https://nypost.com/2026/03/01/world-news/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-irans-ex-president-killed-in-israeli-airstrikes/

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Nothing to add.

[CincyDem]

1. IIRC, he was one of the leaders of the '79 Embassy takeover ?

[CountAllVotes]

2. I don't know

I remember when he was the president of Iran.

He seemed very controversial to me.

[CincyDem]

6. did some homework.

Apparently there's controversy on the claim. Several hostages said he was there. CIA says he "likely wasn't".

so it falls in the the "who knows" for sure category.

[IronLionZion]

16. He was a college student at the time, so it's possible

it sounds like something he would boast about openly but hasn't. So maybe he wasn't involved.

[lastlib]

18. I have heard that....

Not sure of the veracity of the fact.

[lostincalifornia]

3. While I am not thrilled with this war of choice, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will not be missed.

[Mosby]

4. Maybe, it hasn't been confirmed.

One needs to be careful with Israeli media because they often don't do a lot of fact checking before publishing articles.

Just saying.

[CountAllVotes]

5. Since when is the NY Post "Israeli media"

??????

[Mosby]

8. The tabloid rag NY post is quoting Ma'ariv, the main morning daily in Israel.

It's right there in the article.

[Prairie Gates]

9. What's the "California Post" that you listed as the source?

[CountAllVotes]

12. the link I posted shows to be the NYPOST

if you look at the link ...

When you click on the story it shows up as the "californiapost" ....

I don't know why.

[lostincalifornia]

7. .....................................

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-888386

[Mosby]

11. The Guardian, Wapo and WSJ are not reporting this.

It's probably true, but I'm waiting for better sources.

[lostincalifornia]

13. I understand. Thanks.

[Prairie Gates]

10. This is being widely reported by world media

The New York Post is late to it, actually.

[LeftInTX]

14. All sorts of odd sources are saying he's dead. But according to wikipedia:

On 28 February 2026, reports emerged that a house in Narmak, Tehran was struck and allegedly destroyed during the Israeli–United States strikes on Iran; the attack killed three members of the IRGC who were serving as his bodyguards.[260] However, Ahmadinejad's own residence was not damaged and some report that he was unharmed.[261][262]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad


The odd sources are Turkish sites, Indian media etc......


Who knows?

Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not dead, his party Dolate Bahar announced on Sunday.

The Iranian news agency ILNA had previously reported that the 69-year-old had been killed in an air raid in Tehran. The agency said he was killed at his home in eastern Tehran along with his bodyguard,

It was not initially possible to independently verify which of the two statements was correct.

"Dolate Bahar hereby announces that the reports about the martyrdom of Dr Ahmadinejad in the American-Israeli attacks are false," it said in a statement on the party's website.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/party-former-iranian-president-ahmadinejad-192829008.html

[CountAllVotes]

15. seems to be a changing story

Different sources are saying different things ... ?

I quote from Wikipedia:

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Born
Oct 28, 1956
Aradan, Iran
Died
Feb 28, 2026
Wikipedia
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - Wikipedia
is an Iranian politician who served as the sixth president of Iran from 2005 to 2013. Ideologically a principlist and nationalist.

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