Ayatollah Khamenei knew he was a target — Israel’s most important — and he took great care not to let his movements be known. He had several places where he believed himself to be secure, including some hideouts built deep underground, under apartment blocks, and of course in his enormous compound in the middle of Tehran. He varied his movements , moving from meetings in one place to meetings in another, and varied, too, the places where he slept. More on how the Israelis tracked him to his final meeting with other senior leaders, held on Saturday morning, the beginning of the Iranian work week, can be found here: “Israel hacked Tehran’s traffic cameras, used AI to plan Khamenei’s assassination – Financial Times,” by Idan Kweller, Jerusalem Post, March 3, 2026:
Israel hacked into Tehran’s traffic cameras in order to surveil the daily life of senior Iranian figures in preparation for Operation Roaring Lion, according to a report by the Financial Times published on Monday.
The report said that Israeli intelligence mapped out a “life pattern” for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his security personnel, including travel routes, hours of activity, and the identities of the senior figures who were usually with the late Iranian leader, who was killed in an airstrike on Saturday.
The report also mentions that Israel used artificial intelligence tools, alongside algorithms, to sort through vast amounts of information that was gathered about the Iranian leadership and its movements.
Additionally, the CIA provided another human source to certify the exact location where Khamenei was set to be on the day of his assassination….
Think of how much effort went into this assassination. First, recording Khamenei’s every waking moment, what was his standard routine and what could happen that would break that routine, the exact time of his waking, having breakfast (where? What did he have to eat? Who was there with him?), the route he took to whichever one of his many offices he chose to visit that day, and where he would be meeting with which officials. After years of this, the Israelis had established what the Mossad called a “life pattern” for Khamenei, his security detail, and the senior officials who normally accompanied him.
The Israelis used AI tools and algorithms to sort through all the data about the supreme leader and his associates that had been so laboriously accumulated. The supreme leader’s killing may have been the first assassination in history where AI played an essential role.
The Americans also played a part in Khamenei’s unlamented demise. They had an agent on the inside who confirmed for the Israelis the exact place Khamenei would be on the date selected for his assassination.
Now the supreme leader, as a “martyr,” and despite his advanced age, must now be enjoying his 72 virgins in jannah. And about 85 of the 90 million Iranians are enjoying his removal from their midst. Meanwhile, Mossad and its helpmeet inside Iran working for the CIA are no doubt quietly satisfied that it all went according to plan. The supreme leader, along with his wife, daughter, son-in-law, granddaughter, and forty of Iran’s most senior leaders, both civilian and military, have been blown to smithereens.
David Lakatos says
hoo-ha
Wellington says
So, why didn’t Allah protect Khamenei from the terrible Jews who, per Sura 5:60, are the “descendants of apes and pigs?” And, yes, I know, per so many excuses for Islam, including by AI which continues to lean Left and one knows this by now or should know it, this was not meant for all Jews but only certain Jews.
But if you accept this excuse masquerading as an argument then you will very likely accept that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance and the whole other nine yards of this rotten way of thinking.
In any case, Khamenei was a spiritual Hitler (indeed, Islam and Nazism have much in common—a master faith v. a master race). So glad this horrible man is gone since his presence on Earth in no way advanced the noble twin causes of truth and freedom.
Long live Israel, the only true beacon of light in that very dark (and stupid) corner of the world known as the Middle East.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“So, why didn’t Allah protect Khamenei from the terrible Jews…”
Apparently, “allah” was not willing.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
James
As a result, any “good muslim” should accept this will of allah, and stop mourning the deaths of Khamenei, or other islamic regime figures. After all, who are they to question the will of allah? 😈
gravenimage says
Yep.
ploome says
Why are the Israelis telling everyone how they did it?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
You beat me to it. The Israelis love spilling their secrets, and then Hugh splashes it out here for everybody to read
When will they ever learn?
somehistory says
they tell everything. The Bible tells what the Jews did, but when it has passed years in time….like Judge Ehud using his left-handedness and his enemies’ weakness against the evil king of eglon.. And Judge Gideon and the torches.
If they just must tell, they should wait. at least for a little while.
dumbledoresarmy says
Indeed. After the Dam Busters, did the British publish front-page articles going on about the ‘bouncing bombs’ that they used to do it??
When infidels figure out a nifty new way to get the drop on the mass-murderous Mohammedans, they should say nothing! nothing! in public about how they did it! Just share, very quietly, behind closed doors, with other – carefully checked – infidels, on a need-to-know basis.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Ploome, Infidel, Somehistory, and DDA–Israel is brilliant, but they should keep some of their techniques close to the vest. And not just so their enemies cannot try to protect against them, but because a lot of Muslims already consider Jews to be almost supernatural in their abilities.
Westman says
Just appeared: Mojtaba isn’t aroused by women…. Wonder if the boy is ….
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15611879/amp/Iran-Supreme-Leader-impotency-UK-hospitals-intelligence.html
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, there is now division within the “assembly of experts” over him being forced on them by the IRGC. They should seize him and throw him off a tall building for his impotence 😈
As an aside, one meme that I saw yesterday: an Iranian woman posted that the reason Khamenei can’t be buried is that Israel has not been paid by his family for the missile that took him out. This is of course in reference to the practice of the Basij in the last few weeks of withholding the bodies of protestors that they kill until their families pay them for the bullets that killed them. I do think that Israel should be compensated for that missile by any surviving member of the Khamenei clan 😂🤣
ExterminateFoidsWithNuclearArtillery says
I just hope Iranians stay in iran, not come here
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I think there are a lot of Iranian expats/exiles who’d go back to Iran once Pahlavi is reinstated, and Iran starts resembling what it was before 1979
gravenimage says
+1
JA says
Is it a good idea for Jihad Watch to constantly spread the news on HOW the Israelis secretly get their enemies?
Let them stay in the dark about it!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
💯
Voltaic says
It’s all over the place.
In particular, the “tabloid” Daily Mail UK (or its mailonline) always publishes excellent graphics for this sort of thing.
(Early Bird Catches The Ayatollah Worm would be a good headline)
But you think publishing war-trade secrets is a problem?
After what happened to Nazrellah in his deep underground bunker maybe the Ayatollah should have become a Trans Woman (surgery optional -don’t think about it) and emigrated to Japan as a retired geisha.
Instead he sat there with his glass of camel’s milk as a missile came straight down at him from Outer Space.
Where have all the mullahs gone?
Gone to bunkers, every one.
Where have all the bunkers gone?
Gone to rubble, every one.
Where has all the rubble gone?
Gone to graveyards, all of it.
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Gone to flowers, all of them.
Where have all the flowers gone?
Gone to young girls, each of them.
Where have all the young girls gone….?
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn!
Ralph says
I think the Israelis “telegraph their punches” because they are not afraid of their enemies being smart enough to duplicate their tradecraft. In any event, I just want to dance on the ceiling to celebrate the achievements of little Israel over the murderous incompetents who surround her.
gravenimage says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
According to the worldview of the House of Islam , no official of that “mullah regime” of Iran really have any right weep for or to blame Israel for the death of Khamenei . For when gets down to basic Quran theology which is the Quran based worldview the one who is really to blame and is responsible for the killing of Khamenei is the god of Islam, Allah. Since such Muslims really liked that tyrant and view his death as tragic disaster For according to the Quran, Allah was responsible for killing Khamenei. So the Muslims of that Islamic tyranny should seek revenge on Allah.
For the Qu ‘ran teaches in Surah 57:22. “No misfortune [disaster] can happen on earth or in your souls but is recorded in a decree [Qu ‘ran ] before [in eternity ] We [Allah] bring it into existence: that is easy for Allah.”
So such Muslims should really blame their god, Allah for killing of that ayatollah.