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Source: https://www.ft.com/content/bf998c69-ab46-4fa3-aae4-8f18f7387836
Inside the Plan to Kill Ali Khamenei
(Financial Times-UK) Mehul Srivastava - When the bodyguards and drivers of senior Iranian officials came to work in Tehran on Saturday, the Israelis were watching. Nearly all the traffic cameras in Tehran had been hacked for years and their images transmitted to servers in Israel, according to two people familiar with the matter. The capabilities were part of a years-long intelligence campaign that helped pave the way for the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, one of hundreds of different streams of intelligence. Israel was also able to disrupt single components of a dozen mobile phone towers near Khamenei's offices, making the phones seem as if they were busy when called and stopping Khamenei's protection detail from receiving possible warnings. "We knew Tehran like we know Jerusalem," said one current Israeli intelligence official.