Ayatollah’s Wife Dies From Injuries Sustained in US Strikes, State Media Says

A number of Iranian officials have been killed in the U.S.–Israeli strikes since Saturday morning.

Pro-regime demonstrators gather at a square to mourn the death of Iran’s leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran on March 1, 2026. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images

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.