Inside the US-Israel plan to assassinate Iran’s Khamenei

The CIA shared location intel with Israel that moved the timing of the strikes forward according to US media reports.

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After more than three decades as Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was assassinated in US and Israeli air strikes on Saturday morning.

The man who led the country in two capacities since 1981 was a key figure in the Islamic revolution that overthrew the Iranian monarchy in 1979. He first served as president, then as supreme leader following the 1989 death of revolutionary leader Rohollah Khomeini.