{"id":589,"date":"2026-03-03T13:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/589\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T13:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:41:19","slug":"israeli-spies-spent-years-hacking-every-camera-in-tehran-to-monitor-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/589\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli spies spent years hacking every camera in Tehran to monitor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli spies spent years hacking nearly every traffic camera in Tehran so they could monitor Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei before he was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/01\/world-news\/cia-tracked-iran-supreme-leader-khameneis-movement-for-months-intel-helped-us-israel-time-strike-during-meeting-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">eventually wiped out<\/a>, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>The cameras, including one directly pointed at Khamenei\u2019s closely guarded compound, allowed Mossad to build highly specific intelligence files that aided Saturday\u2019s deadly strikes, multiple sources <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/bf998c69-ab46-4fa3-aae4-8f18f7387836\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told the Financial Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew Tehran like we know Jerusalem,\u201d an Israeli intelligence official claimed.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38656593\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2263618404.jpg\" alt=\"Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei seated at a podium with a microphone.\" class=\"wp-image-38656593\"  \/>Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him during a religious gathering in Tehran on February 19, 2026. KHAMENEI.IR\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd when you know [a place] as well as you know the street you grew up on, you notice a single thing that\u2019s out of place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some of the images obtained from the cameras allowed Mossad operatives to determine \u201ca pattern of life\u201d for Khamenei\u2019s security guards \u2014 including exactly where they parked their cars, their addresses and who they were tasked with protecting, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38656595\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2023-04-09T151712Z_2146295812_RC21B0AS3LPE_RTRMADP_3_IRAN-WOMEN.jpg\" alt=\"An overhead view of a yellow car, two motorcycles, and two traffic cameras on a grey asphalt road.\" class=\"wp-image-38656595\"  \/>CCTV cameras are seen in a street in Tehran, Iran. Mossad allegedly hacked every traffic camera in Tehran for years. via REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>The data was among the trove of information used to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/02\/us-news\/donald-trump-says-he-took-out-khamenei-before-he-got-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">carry out the strikes<\/a> on Khamenei\u2019s Tehran compound on Saturday \u2014 just as a massive meeting of the Islamic Republic\u2019s security officials was underway.<\/p>\n<p>The plan to kill Khamenei had been in the works for months but the timeline was adjusted once it was confirmed the supreme leader would be attending in person, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Before President Trump gave the order to unleash \u201cOperation Epic Fury,\u201d the traffic cameras apparently confirmed Khamenei\u2019s meeting was running on time.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, fighter jets swooped in broad daylight as part of wide-spread strikes, turning Khamenei\u2019s building into rubble \u2014 and killing the despotic cleric along with dozens of officials and several members of his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli spies spent years hacking nearly every traffic camera in Tehran so they could monitor Iranian Supreme Leader&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[665,666,34,37,69,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-cameras","9":"tag-hackers","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-tehran","13":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116165534313505423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}