Poetic Justice

The most astounding fact involving the Israeli-United States campaign against Iran is the intelligence that was behind the bombing targets.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his inner circle were taken out as they gathered at his residential compound in Tehran at the beginning of the campaign.

The IDF released this graphic this shows the major regime leaders that were eliminated in the first hours of the campaign.

The building in which Iran's Assembly of Experts were going to meet to name the new Supreme Leader was then bombed in which some of the clerics were present and either perished or were injured.

The precision bombing is impressive in itself.

However, more impressive is the intelligence that is directing those deadly strikes.

How have Mossad and/or the CIA been able to do this?

The obvious answer is that they have a very well-placed source within the Iranian leadership.

I have also seen speculation that Mossad-paid dentists and/or doctors planted tracking sensors in the teeth or in the bodies of some of the key Iranian figures.

That seems far-fetched but the mere fact that it is being circulated is a very effective psyop that has to be playing in the minds of every remaining Iranian leader right now 

The most reliable explanation for the intelligence is from original reporting that first appeared in The Financial Times.

The FT report claims that Israel hacked into traffic and surveillance cameras in Tehran to track the movements of the Supreme Leader, his security team and other top leaders.

Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-israel-hacked-tehran-traffic-cameras-to-track-khamenei-ahead-of-assassination/

The cameras were part of one of the most comprehensive surveillance systems in the world.

Cameras on every street. Facial recognition at universities to identify emerging dissidents. License tag readers to automatically fine women who might remove their hijab in their cars. Drones that monitored beaches to insure women remained fully clothed and covered.

It was the primary tool to insure compliance with strict Islamic law.

All of it established and implemented on the orders of the Supreme Leader.

Israel hacked nearly all of it over a number of years and used it to build files on the movements and habits of all of the key leaders and their security personnel.

As they put it, the Israelis eventually knew Tehran as well as they did Jerusalem.

Israel hacked into Tehran’s extensive traffic camera network in order to track the bodyguards of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top Iranian officials ahead of Saturday’s assassination of the supreme leader, the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing two people familiar with the matter.

Iran’s cameras are believed to be part of the state’s surveillance apparatus, allowing authorities to identify and pursue protesters and regime opponents. But the Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, was able to co-opt the network for use against the regime, the report said.

The FT said Israel gained access to the cameras years ago, and found that one particular camera was angled in such a way that it showed where members of Khamenei’s security team parked their cars.

Through the cameras, Israeli intelligence built files on the guards’ addresses, work schedules, and who they were assigned to protect.

On the day of the attack, Israel and the US also disrupted cellular service on Tehran’s Pasteur Street, where Khamenei was assassinated, so those trying to reach the bodyguards and deliver possible warnings would receive busy signals, per the report.

“We knew Tehran like we know Jerusalem,” an Israeli intelligence official told the Financial Times. “And when you know [a place] as well as you know the street you grew up on, you notice a single thing that’s out of place.”

Israel used AI tools and algorithms it had developed to sort through mountains of data it was amassing on Iran’s leadership and their movements, according to an official who spoke with the British daily, which said the bulk of the work was performed by the IDF’s Unit 8200.

The massive data mining operation allowed the military to track Khamenei to the Saturday meeting where he was struck, and assured Mossad and the CIA that senior officials were on their way to the meeting.

The CIA also had a human source who provided key intelligence, according to the sources. No further details were provided.

Take as step back and consider all of this.

Israel did not hack a military installation or system.

They hacked a domestic surveillance apparatus the primary purpose of which was to keep their people in line.

It was used to track women who were not wearing a hijab, were not wearing their veil properly or to build dossiers on women who committed the crime of showing a few locks of hair.

Israel turned the tool of Iran's morality police into intelligence to attack those in the regime that were using the surveillance system to spy and suppress their population.

The Ayatollah spent untold amounts of money to control Iran's population, especially its women.

Is it not poetic justice that all of this ultimately led to his undoing?

Some might see it as something else.