{"id":54892,"date":"2026-03-01T12:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T11:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=54892"},"modified":"2026-03-01T12:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T11:45:09","slug":"putins-first-comment-on-the-assassination-of-khamenei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=54892","title":{"rendered":"Putin&#8217;s first comment on the assassination of Khamenei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, describing it as a &#8220;deliberate crime.&#8221; In his first comment on the matter, Putin stated while offering condolences to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian that &#8220;the assassination of Khamenei was carried out in flagrant violation of all human moral values and international law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Putin noted that &#8220;the killing of Khamenei is a deliberate murder that violates all standards of human morality and international law.&#8221; According to a statement issued by the Kremlin, Putin praised Khamenei&#8217;s role in developing friendly relations between Russia and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Iran announced the death of Khamenei on Saturday following a US-Israeli missile attack. The Iranian government has declared 40 days of mourning and a week-long public holiday, while the Revolutionary Guard and the Iranian army issued statements vowing to avenge the killing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, describing it as a &#8220;deliberate crime.&#8221; In his first comment on the matter, Putin stated while offering condolences to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian that &#8220;the assassination of Khamenei was carried out in flagrant violation of all human moral values and international law.&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}