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NEW: Targeting Iran’s Leaders, Israel Found a Weak Link- Their Bodyguards nytimes.com/2025/08/30/us/… The meeting was so secret that only the attendees, a handful of top Iranian government officials and military commanders, knew the time and location. But, as it turned out too late- someone was watching. It was June 16, the fourth day of Iran’s war with Israel, and Iran’s Supreme National Security Council gathered for an emergency meeting in a bunker 100 feet below a mountain slope in the western part of Tehran. For days, a relentless Israeli bombing campaign had destroyed military, government and nuclear sites around Iran, and had decimated the top echelon of Iran’s military commanders and nuclear scientists. The officials, who included President Masoud Pezeshkian, the heads of the judiciary and the intelligence ministry and senior military commanders, arrived in separate cars. None of them carried mobile phones, knowing that Israeli intelligence could track them. Despite all the precautions, Israeli jets dropped six bombs on top of the bunker soon after the meeting began. The attack threw Iran’s intelligence apparatus into another tailspin, and soon enough Iranian officials discovered a devastating security lapse: The Israelis had been led to the meeting by hacking the phones of bodyguards who had accompanied the Iranian leaders to the site, waited outside and was killed in the blast. W\ @farnazfassihi @MarkMazzettiNYT via @nytimes

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