Israeli intelligence reportedly hacked the phones of the bodyguards accompanying Iran's highest-ranking officials, tracking their location and bombing a high-level meeting in western Tehran
Israel attempted to assassinate Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and other high-ranking political officials several days into the June war, The New York Times reported Saturday.
According to the report, Israeli jets struck an underground bunker 30 meters (100 feet) inside a mountain slope in western Tehran, where Iran's Supreme National Security Council held a meeting on June 16. Israeli intelligence reportedly tracked the location of the high-ranking officials by hacking the phones of their bodyguards.
Besides Pezeshkian, the meeting was reportedly attended by Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf and Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, who heads the Islamic Republic's judiciary.
According to The Times, Israeli aircraft dropped six bombs on the bunker, destroying its entrances and exits but failing to kill those inside. The bodyguards who remained outside the facility were reportedly killed in the airstrike.
