Months of planning behind US-Israeli mission to target Iran's supreme leader

The United States and Israel conducted a coordinated morning attack in Tehran that killed Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several senior officials, acting on CIA intelligence about their meeting location. For months, both countries had been tracking Iranian leaders through sophisticated surveillance methods, possibly including telecommunications monitoring and bodyguard tracking techniques similar to those used in a previous conflict. The strike involved approximately 30 Israeli bombs targeting an underground bunker at a compound in central Tehran around 9:40 AM local time, requiring multiple munitions to penetrate the fortified structure.