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Years of surveillance, minutes of execution: Inside the plan to kill Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

  • Mehul Srivastava in Istanbul,, James Shotter in Jerusalem, , Neri Zilber in Tel Aviv, and Steff Chávez in Washington--The Irish Times
  • published date: 2026-03-03 15:30:00 UTC

Israel spent years hacking Tehran’s traffic cameras, monitoring guards before the assassination

When the highly trained, loyal bodyguards and drivers of senior Iranian officials came to work near Pasteur Street in Tehran where Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in an Israeli air strike on Saturd… [+11300 chars]