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CIA quality indicating Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would be a gathering of apical Iranian officials helped usher strikes successful a US and Israeli onslaught that killed Iran's ultimate leader, the New York Times reported Sunday (March 1, 2026).
Khamenei was killed successful the strikes connected superior Tehran, Iranian authorities media confirmed connected Sunday (March 1, 2026), aft the U.S. and Israel vowed to question authorities alteration successful the Islamic republic.
The American quality bureau had been tracking Khamenei for months, the Times reported, citing radical acquainted with the operation, and learned that a gathering of apical Iranian officials was acceptable for Saturday greeting astatine a enactment compound successful the bosom of Tehran.
Washington and Tel Aviv primitively planned to motorboat strikes connected Iran astatine night, but officials adjusted the program based connected the CIA intelligence, according to the Times.
The U.S. gave the accusation to Israel, who planned to transportation retired the onslaught connected Iranian leadership, the paper reported.
The cognition began astir 6:00 a.m. successful Israel (0400 GMT), and long-range missiles struck the compound astir 9:40 a.m., the Times said.
Senior Iranian nationalist information officials were successful 1 gathering astatine the compound, and Khamenei was successful a adjacent building.
In summation to Khamenei, 2 apical Iranian subject leaders were killed successful the bombing: the main of the Revolutionary Guards, General Mohammad Pakpour, and different apical information adviser, Ali Shamkhani, Iran's judiciary confirmed.
Iran has since retaliated, with reported strikes crossed the Gulf, including successful the Emirati superior Abu Dhabi and adjacent determination US subject bases, arsenic the menace of a larger determination struggle grows.
U.S. President Donald Trump, meanwhile, has said the American military's bombing volition proceed "as agelong arsenic necessary."
