Khaberni - Hours after the denial, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard confirmed the killing of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei by American-Israeli strikes early on Sunday, promising revenge.
How was the assassination carried out?
Israeli officials reported that intelligence officers had pinpointed 3 simultaneous meetings and had a precise location for Khamenei, describing the moment as "unique" enough that American and Israeli warplanes launched the attack in broad daylight.
They added that the Israeli planes dropped 30 bombs on Khamenei's compound, leaving it burned and destroyed, according to the "Wall Street Journal".
They also pointed out that Israeli and American military intelligence had been watching for a long time and waited for a rare opportunity when top political and military leaders in Iran were meeting to be able to kill them all at once.
They said: "The awaited day came on Saturday morning."
Israel also announced that it killed a number of other senior political and military officials, including Ali Shamkhani, the top security adviser to Khamenei, and Mohammad Pakpour, the commander of the Revolutionary Guard, and the defense minister Amir Nasr Zadeh.
Visits to Washington
Meanwhile, sources also revealed that in the period leading up to the campaign, senior leaders of the Israeli army frequented Washington to plan the attack, including their supreme commander, the Air Force commander, the head of military intelligence, and the Mossad director.
Netanyahu met with Trump in December at Mar-a-Lago, the President's club in Florida, where they publicly agreed that military action would be justified if Iran continued its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, and then they met with him again in early February at the White House.
At the same time, Israeli officials said that Israeli intelligence had been gathering information about targets in Iran and sharing it with the United States.
Until Trump ordered the largest deployment of American firepower in the Middle East in decades, sending two aircraft carriers, about 12 destroyers, and a group of advanced fighter jets to the seas and bases surrounding Iran.
