In a clinical display of long-term espionage, Israeli intelligence reportedly spent years compromising Tehran’s traffic camera network and infiltrating mobile phone systems to track the movements of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. According to reports, this digital dragnet was fundamental to the coordinated strike on Saturday that resulted in the Supreme Leader’s assassination.
Sources familiar with the operation claim that nearly every traffic camera in the Iranian capital has been under Tel Aviv’s control for years, with encrypted footage beamed directly to Israeli servers. This allowed analysts to build a granular "pattern of life" for the Supreme Leader and his security detail.
One camera in particular — situated near the fortified compound on Pasteur Street — offered a high-value vantage point that revealed the daily routines of bodyguards and even where they parked their private vehicles.
To further tighten the net on the morning of the strike, Israel reportedly jammed mobile phone towers in the vicinity. This ensured that calls made to or from the compound returned a busy signal, effectively silencing any last-minute warnings that could have reached Khamenei’s protection team. By the time the precision munitions hit the compound at 9:40 am, Israeli and US intelligence had allegedly achieved a level of certainty that one official described as knowing Tehran as well as we know Jerusalem.
The success of the operation, which reportedly took just 60 seconds to execute once the missiles were launched, is being framed as the culmination of decades of cyber-penetration. With the IRGC’s command structure now in tatters, the Iranian establishment is left facing a catastrophic security vacuum.
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