How did Khamenei "fall"? Mossad knew his every move

According to the newspaper, Israel’s intelligence service, Mossad, had access for years to Iran’s video surveillance system, which is part of the state monitoring apparatus, but in this case it was allegedly used against the authorities in Tehran.

Israel reportedly gained access to the cameras several years ago and determined that one of them was positioned to show the location where members of Ali Khamenei’s security parked their vehicles.

Based on the footage, Israeli services compiled dossiers containing the addresses, work schedules, and assignments of members of his security team.

The newspaper also reports that Israel and the United States jammed mobile communications on Pasteur Street in Tehran, where Khamenei was killed, so that anyone attempting to contact the bodyguards and potentially warn them would receive a busy signal.

“We knew Tehran the way we know Jerusalem,” an Israeli intelligence official told the Financial Times, adding that detailed knowledge of the terrain makes it possible to detect even the slightest deviations.

According to the same sources, Israel used artificial intelligence–based tools and proprietary algorithms to process large volumes of data about the Iranian leadership and their movements, enabling the tracking of Khamenei to a meeting on Saturday where he was struck.

It is further stated that Mossad and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had confirmation that senior officials were on their way to that meeting, while the CIA, according to the sources, also had a human source who provided key intelligence information.

Tanjug/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP

Attack on Iran

Khamenei, who had led Iran for 37 years, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Tehran on Saturday.

The United States and Israel attacked Iran early Saturday morning in what they described as “preventive strikes,” following the failure of multiple rounds of negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program.

Iran then launched massive retaliatory strikes against Israel and targets linked to the United States across the Middle East region.