the lightning attack by the US and Israel that caused him to fall along with his daughter, son-in-law and grandson

Khamenei’s death came after a plan drawn up by United States and Israel conceived weeks ago.

The one baptized by Tel Aviv as Operation Lion’s Roar started at 06:00 Iran time, around 03:30 hours from Spain.

“Long range” missiles

As stated The New York Times, The device began with the takeoff of the airplanes combat from their bases.

The attack did not need a multitude of aircraft to completely level the residential complex of the former senior Shiite cleric. Just a series of military aircraft “armed with long-range, high-precision ammunition”.

Two hours and five minutes after the aircraft took off, around 09:40 hours in Tehran (07:10 hours in Spain), the long range missiles They hit the residential complex.

At the time of the attack, several senior officials of the regime Iranian were in one of the numerous buildings that make up the complex.

Simultaneous attacks

But he former supreme leader It was not in this specific block, but in another nearby building.

“This morning’s attack was carried out simultaneously in several locations in Tehranin one of which high-ranking figures from Iran’s political and security echelon had met,” he said. an Israeli defense official to the newspaper The New York Times.

Said official assured the New York newspaper that although Tehran prepared and armored for the war conflict, Tel Aviv achieved a “tactical surprise” with its bombing of the residential complex.

For its part, both White House like the CIA They refused to make statements to Times.

Hours later, the Iranian news agency IRNA confirmed the deaths of two high-level military leaders that Israel claimed to have killed: Rear Admiral Shamkhani and the commander in chief Pakpour.

Months of preparations

The officials who know the ins and outs of the operation that ended the exayatolá Jamenei They said they carried it out thanks to “good information and months of preparations.”

Last June, the president of the United States, Donald Trumpassured that Washington knew where former Ayatollah Khamenei was hiding and “could have killed him.”

The CIAthe US Intelligence agency, had been tracking Khamenei’s location for months.

The agency became aware of a meeting which would be attended by senior officials and would be held this Saturday morning in the residential complex.

They confirmed that Jamenei I would attend the meeting.

Khamenei’s death

The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahuslipped last night that there were “many signs” that suggested that Khamenei had died within the framework of the operation Epic Furya military offensive coordinated with the United States that materialized early Saturday morning.

It took Trump a few hours to confirm it through a publication on his Truth Social platform: “Khamenei, one of the most evil people in historyhe’s dead.”

“This is not only justice for the people of Iran,” the message adds, “but also for all great Americans and for all the people in many countries around the world who have been killed or maimed by Khamenei and his gang of THUGS bloodthirsty.”

Trump celebrated that the former Ayatollah would not have been “able to avoid our intelligence services nor our highly sophisticated tracking systems and, working closely with Israel, there was nothing he, nor the other leaders who have died with him, could do.

Relatives of the former Ayatollah

The daughter, the son-in-law and the grandson of former supreme leader Khamenei, died in the attacks carried out on Saturday morning by the United States and Israel against the Islamic Republic, the news agency reported this Sunday FARrelated to the Revolutionary Guard.

The Iranian media assures that, after establishing contact with sources from the office of Jameneiwas able to confirm the death of the leader’s three relatives.

Likewise, the agency FAR indicated that one of the daughters-in-law of Jamenei He died during one of the attacks on Saturday.