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US President Donald Trump has said that 48 Iranian leaders have been killed in the ongoing US-Israeli bombardments of the country.

“Nobody can believe the success we’re having; 48 leaders are gone in one shot. And it’s moving along rapidly,” Trump has been quoted as saying in an interview by Fox News.

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