the lightning attack by the US and Israel that caused him to fall along with his daughter, son-in-law and grandson

It was not a swarm of military planes that reduced the official residence of Iran’s former supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, to rubble. But that does not mean that it was not an operation calculated to the millimeter.

Khamenei’s death came after a plan drawn up by the United States and Israel devised weeks ago.

The one baptized by Tel Aviv as Operation Lion’s Roar It started at 06:00 in Iran, around 03:30 in Spain.

“Long range” missiles

As stated The New York Times, The device began with the takeoff of fighter planes from their bases.

The attack did not need a multitude of aircraft to completely level the residential complex of the former senior Shiite cleric. Just a series of military aircraft “armed with long-range, high-precision munitions.”

Two hours and five minutes after the aircraft took off, around 09:40 Tehran time (07:10 Spain time), the long-range missiles hit the residential complex.

At the time of the attack, several senior officials of the Iranian regime were in one of the numerous buildings that make up the complex.

Simultaneous attacks

But the former supreme leader was not in this specific block, but in another nearby building.

“This morning’s attack was carried out simultaneously in several places in Tehran, in one of which high-ranking figures from Iran’s political and security echelon had gathered,” an Israeli defense official told the newspaper. The New York Times.

This official assured the New York newspaper that although Tehran prepared and armored itself for the war, Tel Aviv achieved a “tactical surprise” with its bombing of the residential complex.

For their part, both the White House and the CIA refused to make statements to the Times.

Hours later, Iran’s IRNA news agency confirmed the deaths of two senior military leaders that Israel claimed to have killed: Rear Admiral Shamkhani and Commander-in-Chief Papkpur.

Months of preparations

Officials familiar with the ins and outs of the operation that killed Ayatollah Khamenei said they carried it out thanks to “good information and months of preparation.”

Last June, US President Donald Trump claimed that Washington knew where former Ayatollah Khamenei was hiding and “could have killed him.”

The CIA, the US intelligence agency, had been tracking Khamenei’s location for months.

The agency was made aware of a meeting attended by senior officials that would be held this Saturday morning at the residential complex.

They confirmed that Khamenei would attend the meeting.

Khamenei’s death

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last night that there were “many signs” that suggested that Khamenei had died as part of the operation. Epic Furya military offensive coordinated with the United States that materialized early Saturday morning.

It took Trump a few hours to confirm it through a publication on his Truth Social platform: “Jamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead.”

“This is not only justice for the people of Iran,” the message adds, “but also for all great Americans and for all the people in many countries around the world who have been killed or maimed by Khamenei and his band of bloodthirsty THUGS.”

Trump celebrated that the ayatollah had not been “able to bypass our intelligence services or our highly sophisticated tracking systems and, working closely with Israel, there was nothing he, nor the other leaders who have died with him, could do.”

Relatives of the former Ayatollah

The daughter, son-in-law and grandson of former supreme leader Khamenei died in the attacks carried out on Saturday morning by the United States and Israel against the Islamic Republic, the news agency reported this Sunday. FARrelated to the Revolutionary Guard.

The Iranian media assures that, after establishing contact with sources in Khamenei’s office, it was able to confirm the death of the leader’s three relatives.

Likewise, the agency FAR indicated that one of Khamenei’s daughters-in-law died during one of Saturday’s attacks.