{"id":18945,"date":"2026-03-01T04:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/2026\/03\/01\/lawmakers-and-world-leaders-react-to-khameneis-death-after-iran-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T04:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T04:03:00","slug":"lawmakers-and-world-leaders-react-to-khameneis-death-after-iran-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/2026\/03\/01\/lawmakers-and-world-leaders-react-to-khameneis-death-after-iran-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers and world leaders react to Khamenei&#8217;s death after Iran attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>The death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday following a U.S.-Israeli airstrike on Iran drew praise from some lawmakers and world leaders, while others criticized the Trump administration and declared its actions illegal. Rep. Yasamin Ansari (D-Ariz.), the only Iranian-American member of Congress, called Khamenei &quot;the epitome of evil&#8221; and said:<br \/>\n<br \/>Source: https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5761137-ayatollah-khamenei-death-reaction\/<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday following a U.S.-Israeli airstrike on Iran drew praise from some lawmakers and world leaders, while others criticized the Trump administration and declared its actions illegal. Rep. Yasamin Ansari (D-Ariz.), the only Iranian-American member of Congress, called Khamenei &quot;the epitome of evil&#8221; and said: Source: https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5761137-ayatollah-khamenei-death-reaction\/<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[47714,47707,47246,47716],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-house","category-international","category-news","category-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}