The UK Financial Times reported on the 3rd: "Before assassinating Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei, Israel spent years establishing a vast intelligence network in Tehran. Intelligence agencies hacked traffic cameras, infiltrated mobile networks, tracked security teams, and used advanced data analysis techniques to map Khamenei's and his senior officials' 'lifestyle patterns'. U.S. intelligence agencies also provided other information sources. After confirming that Khamenei would attend a meeting at his residence, Israel launched a coordinated strike. Cyber operations paralyzed Iran's communication systems and air defense facilities, and precision-guided missiles struck the location during the day. This operation is considered the result of decades of intelligence agencies focusing on Iran."
Three comments:
1. In the face of top-tier intelligence cyber warfare capabilities, even the core area of a sovereign country's capital is not safe. The breakdown of monitoring, communication, and air defense means that backdoors and vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure are fatal weaknesses.
2. The U.S. and Israel bypassed the threshold of war and directly killed the head of state of a country. This broke the long-standing red line in international politics, rewriting the rules completely, with huge potential consequences.
3. Internal infiltration is more deadly than external bombing. Being able to pinpoint the location of the supreme leader and confirm his real-time presence indicates deep infiltration of Iran's core circle.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1858689672925257/
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