Israel and the US located Khamenei and his leadership after hacking Tehran traffic cameras for years

The US and Israeli secret services used nondescript devices such as traffic cameras in Iran’s capital, Tehran, or telecommunications towers to plan the attack that It ended the life of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and fifty leaders of the regime.

“Practically all” of these cameras would have been intervened for years within a massive electronic hacking operationaccording to sources familiar with the operation al Financial Times.

The images are analyzed from facilities in Tel Aviv where Israeli operatives have ended up memorizing the streets of Tehran “as if they were those of Jerusalem,” they say.

One of the best finds would have been a camera arranged at an angle that allowed checking where Khamenei’s entourage parkedwhich allowed them to draw up a daily agenda of the supreme leader’s habits.

However, the focus was not only on the president. Through Artificial Intelligence programs, analysts would have been able to track in real time “dozens” of targets of interest as they moved through the capital.

In addition, the telecommunications tower on Pasteur Street, in the vicinity of the Presidential Palace, was intervened to prevent Khamenei’s bodyguards from received alert messages at the time the bombing began.

The Unit 8200the article states, is made up of information specialists recruited not only in Israel but in other countries by the Mossad, the Israeli secret services. Using social network analysis techniques, they are able to process “billions” of data to select a target.

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This information is what made it possible to determine the window of opportunity presented by the meeting called by Khamenei on Saturday morning, the first day of the work week in Iran, in his residential complex.

The attack was carried out with military aircraft “armed with long-range, high-precision ammunition” around 09:40 Tehran time (07:10 Spain time), completely destroying the premises

The wife, daughter, son-in-law and several grandchildren of Khamenei, including a 14-month-old baby, were also killed in the attack on the palace, according to the news agency FARrelated to the Revolutionary Guard. The rear admiral Shamkhani and the commander in chief Pakpour, summoned to the meeting, would have also died at that time.

Khamenei took the “conscious decision” to stay in his workplace, when the attacks by Israel and the United States occurred, declared this Tuesday the Iranian Foreign Spokesman, Ismail Baghaei.

The background of Hezbollah’s searches

The operation refers to the one carried out in autumn 2024 by the Mossad against leaders of Hezbollah, the pro-Iranian militia in Lebanon. Several commanders were killed or seriously wounded when their ‘searches‘, devices that they used precisely to be located by mobile phones, They exploded in a coordinated manner.

Around 3:30 in the afternoon on September 17, the organization’s top devices were activated simultaneously upon receiving a warning that appeared to be issued by the leader of Hezbollah. The detonation occurred moments later, with a slight delay in each of the devices.

The second wave of explosions occurred the next day in other types of devices, the walkie-talkies. In total, thousands of devices used by the Shiite militia were attacked.

The operation took years to materialize, Mossad sources explained. The explosives were hidden in the batteries that were manufactured in Israel, but in order for them to reach the hands of the militiamen, they were manufactured a network of shell companies. Israeli intelligence went so far as to create false advertisements to convince their target of the quality of the product.