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Message: [QUOTE="Queen, post: 87525, member: 27"] A precision strike on a Tehran leadership compound wiped out Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and gutted Iran's top military brass on Saturday morning. How the C.I.A. tracked Khamenei [LIST] [*]The C.I.A. had been monitoring Khamenei's movements for months. [*]Intelligence from last year's 12-day war sharpened their tracking ability. [*]A Saturday-morning gathering of top officials sealed the timing. [*]High-fidelity location data got passed directly to Israel. [/LIST] The strike itself went down fast [LIST] [*]Israeli fighter jets launched around 6 a.m. from their bases. [*]Long-range missiles hit the Tehran compound roughly two hours later. [*]Khamenei and senior officials occupied separate buildings at the site. [*]Israel pulled off what they called tactical surprise despite war prep. [/LIST] Top Iranian military leaders confirmed dead [LIST] [*]Ali Shamkhani headed Iran's National Defense Council before the strike killed him. [*]Mohammad Pakpour ran the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as commander-in-chief. [*]Iran's state agency IRNA confirmed both deaths on Sunday. [*]Follow-on strikes also decimated senior intelligence agency ranks. [/LIST] Who else was targeted at the compound [LIST] [*]Mohammad Shirazi served as deputy intelligence minister. [*]Aziz Nasirzadeh held the defense minister role. [*]Seyyed Majid Mousavi commanded the IRGC Aerospace Force. [*]Iran's top intelligence officer managed to escape the operation. [/LIST] U.S.-Israel coordination ran deep [LIST] [*]Joint planning had been underway for months before Saturday. [*]Trump previously claimed the U.S. knew Khamenei's hiding spot. [*]Both countries originally planned a nighttime strike instead. [*]Intelligence networks from the prior conflict powered this whole operation. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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