March 5 (UPI) -- Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed Saturday in a precision strike carried out jointly by the United States and Israel.
After months of meticulous surveillance tracking his movements and daily routines, the CIA identified the precise moment when Khamenei was presiding over a high-level meeting at his Tehran residence and executed the operation.
Khamenei had gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal himself, making a bunker accessible only by more than five minutes of elevator descent his primary refuge. Yet, even that failed to protect him.
Two months earlier, on Jan. 3, U.S. Army Delta Force conducted a raid on Caracas, Venezuela, capturing President Nicolás Maduro and transporting him to New York. As his senior military commanders were killed around him, Maduro was taken aboard the USS Iwo Jima in restraints.
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