Secrets about the death of Khamenei have been exposed! On March 3, four Iranian officials revealed that despite a large number of signs indicating that Americans were preparing to launch an attack, Iran believed the attack was unlikely to occur during the day. It was a Saturday morning, the start of the workweek in Iran, with children on their way to school and people heading to their jobs. Those attending the meeting of the Supreme National Security Council did not have an urgent need to go to underground bunkers or other secret locations unknown to American or Israeli spies.
The Iranian officials said that Ayatollah Khamenei had told his inner circle that if war broke out, he would rather stay in place and become a martyr than be judged by history as a leader who hid. When the senior leaders gathered for the meeting, he was in another office in the compound. He requested a briefing after the meeting. Soon after the meeting began, missiles attacked. Obviously, what does this indicate from these reports?
This probably indicates two things: First, the core layer of Iran still has illusions about the United States, even believing that the United States would not launch an attack during the day. The United States chose to launch the attack during the day and on a workday in Iran, which is undoubtedly a very precise timing choice. Second, Khamenei was indeed fearless and had long been mentally prepared for his death. Khamenei knew that this day would eventually come. However, the "illusion" of the Iranian leadership essentially reflects a serious miscalculation in Iran's logic regarding the U.S. and Israel.
Might the Iranian leadership at the time believed that negotiations were still ongoing, and they thought there was still room for compromise with the United States, without expecting the sudden attack by the U.S. and Israel. Moreover, the U.S. and Israel launched the attack without declaring war, and only issued a declaration of war after the attack occurred. In short, the actions of the U.S. and Israel have no bottom line, while Iran lacked sufficient vigilance, leading to heavy losses among its core leadership.
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