How Israel tracked, isolated and killed Khamenei? Hacked traffic cameras, network disruption on Pasteur Street, & more | Today News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : A person familiar with the methodology told the newspaper that Israel employed social network analysis -- a mathematical approach used to parse billions of data points -- to identify centres of decision-making gravity and uncover new surveillance targets.
49% : Yet the strategic gains of such operations remain contested within Israel and internationally.
48% : "If the decision maker decides that someone has to be assassinated, in Israel the culture is: 'We will provide the targeting intelligence.'
44% : Israel's assassination of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was not a sudden tactical breakthrough but the culmination of a years-long intelligence operation that penetrated Tehran's surveillance infrastructure, mapped the daily routines of his security detail and exploited vulnerabilities in the capital's communications grid, according to a Financial Times exclusive.
36% : Israel has conducted hundreds of overseas assassinations over the decades, targeting militant leaders, nuclear scientists and military officials.
32% : A Financial Times investigation reveals how Israel spent years hacking Tehran's traffic cameras and mobile networks to map Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's movements and build a "pattern of life", enabling precise targeting in the strike that killed Iran's supreme leader.

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