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Can Trump Legally Kill Iran’s Leader?
The United States and Israel started a war with Iran by killing its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Charlie Savage writes about national security and legal policy. He reported from Washington.
The United States and Israel opened their war on Iran this weekend with a sudden strike on its longtime supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. While the war as a whole has been broadly denounced as illegal by critics who point to its lack of authorization from Congress or the United Nations Security Council, the ayatollah’s killing raises particular legal questions.
It is extraordinarily rare for a country to deliberately and openly kill the leader of another sovereign nation — even during legally uncontested wars. As a result, the question has seldom come up. A scarce precedent of sorts came in March 2003, when the Bush administration tried to kill Saddam Hussein on the cusp of the Iraq war, a conflict Congress had authorized — but that airstrike missed its target.
Exclusive: Israel decided to kill Iran’s leader after Oct. 7 attack
The decision to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Iran-backed leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah was taken in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 attacks, when Israel decided to eliminate anyone involved in planning or assisting the devastating 2023 assault, USA TODAY has learned.
But more specific planning for what Israel has called Operation Roaring Lion and the United States is calling Epic Fury did not begin until after Israel’s 12-day war with Iran in June 2025, and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave the order for the operation only in November that same year, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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