CIA tracked Iranian leaders ‘for months’ before strikes, sharing intelligence with Israel
The CIA had been tracking the movements of senior Iranian leaders, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, for months. That is according to a person familiar with the operation who was not…
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How Israeli sleight and US might led to the assassination of Ali Khamenei
An operation decades in the making took just 60 seconds to carry out, but some question its wisdom The assassination of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was the culmination of decades of painstaking intelligence gathering by Israeli secret services, with crucial technological resources and manpower provided over the last six months by the CIA and other US intelligence services, that culminated in a single concentrated burst of lethal violence to decapitate the Iranian regime, ac...
By Jason Burke in Jerusalem
Read full article →CIA tracked Iranian leaders ‘for months’ before strikes, sharing intelligence with Israel
The CIA had been tracking the movements of senior Iranian leaders, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, for months. That is according to a person familiar with the operation who was not authorised to comment publicly and spoke on Sunday on condition of anonymity. The intelligence was shared with Israeli officials, and the timing of this weekend’s strikes was adjusted in part because of that information, the person said. The New York Times earlier reported on the CIA’s efforts ahea...
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