Israel Used Hacked Tehran Cameras to Track Khamenei Before Strike: Report
Teheran: A report by the London-based Financial Times newspaper has revealed what Israeli intelligence agencies describe as a long-term plan that led to the targeted killings of Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as the country’s top military leaders.
Israel spent years hacking Tehran’s traffic camera systems and gaining access to mobile phone networks to monitor Khamenei’s movements and security details, according to the Financial Times, citing multiple sources. It was reported that almost all traffic cameras in Tehran were seized and the images were encrypted and transferred to external servers.
The alleged breach allowed Israeli and American forces to locate Khamenei, ultimately leading to his elimination in a targeted attack.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the attacks on Iran in an interview with Fox News and stated that the Iranian regime is determined to destroy the United States.
Netanyahu said, “Iran has been chanting death slogans against America for 47 years. They bombed your embassies. They attempted to assassinate US President Donald Trump twice. They killed their own people, massacred many people. And they spread a terrorist network around the world. This is a regime determined to destroy the United States.”
US Vice President J.D. Vance also told Fox News that President Donald Trump is committed to ensuring Iran never has a nuclear weapon.
“What the president determined in the first three or four years of his second term was that he didn’t just want to protect the country from Iran’s nuclear weapons. He wanted to make sure that Iran could never have a nuclear weapon, and that was going to require a fundamental change in the mindset of the Iranian regime,” Vance said.
Trump added that he believed Iran was approaching the threshold of developing nuclear weapons and decided to take action to protect the national security of the United States.
Earlier, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the current wave of retaliation from Iran shows what Tehran could have done in the future if the attack had not been carried out.
Rubio said, “This operation had to happen because Iran will have so many short-range missiles, so many drones in about a year, that no one can do anything about it. Look at the damage they’re doing right now, this is a weakened Iran. Imagine a year from now. The bottom line is, no matter who runs the country a year from now, they won’t have these ballistic missiles, they won’t have these drones to threaten us. That’s the purpose of this mission.” at a press conference.
His words received a harsh reaction from Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
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The conflict in West Asia continues to intensify as the Iranian leadership targets Gulf countries and American assets in the region. Meanwhile, the United States has stated that the strongest attacks by the US armed forces are yet to come and that more military action may be coming.
