Reference News, March 18 report: According to the Israeli Jerusalem Post website's March 17 report, the newspaper has learned that Ali Larijani was the first target of Israel after the assassination of Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei on February 28.
According to senior defense sources, Israel invested a large amount of intelligence and operational resources to locate Larijani.
However, Larijani is not easy to locate. He is experienced and has taken multiple preventive measures to delay and avoid being located by Israel.
The defense source said, for example, he moved to different secret locations within the past two weeks.
This is consistent with the situation of the leader of the "Mobilization of the Poor Organization" resistance force (a paramilitary group under the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - note from this site), who was killed while in a temporary tent.
The report stated that the "special capabilities" to track Larijani, as well as the rapid decision-making of the Chief of the Israeli Defense Forces, Eyal Zamir, and the political elite, enabled the successful execution of this assassination.
According to defense sources, after submitting the intelligence to the highest decision-makers, these decision-makers quickly ordered fighter jets to carry out a key mission 1,600 kilometers away.
Larijani and senior officials of the "Mobilization of the Poor Organization" resistance force were killed on the same night, and they were in completely different locations.
All of this happened in distant Iran, which is more challenging than suddenly deciding to carry out attack missions in multiple locations in Gaza or Lebanon, where planes can reach within minutes. (Translated by Qing Songzhu)
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