General · 2 March 2026
Israel, US: The 60-second operation that ended Khamenei
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, was assassinated in a central Tehran compound on a Saturday morning. This 60-second operation resulted from months of tracking his movements by Israeli intelligence and US services. Crucial US technological resources and manpower aided Israel's decades of intelligence gathering, also pinpointing other senior Iranian leaders. Sophisticated tracking systems, potentially including telecoms penetration or bodyguard monitoring, were used to locate him.
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