Trump: 48 Iranian leaders "gone in one shot"
US President Donald Trump has said 48 Iranian leaders have been killed in US-Israeli strikes on Iran.
Source: Jacqui Heinrich, Fox News Senior White House Correspondent, on X (Twitter), citing a comment by Trump, as reported by European Pravda; CNN
Quote: "It's moving along rapidly. Nobody can believe the success we're having, 48 leaders are gone in one shot. And it's moving along rapidly."
Details: CNN reported earlier on Sunday 1 March that Israeli and US intelligence services, including the CIA, had been tracking Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for months, monitoring his daily routine and keeping other senior political and military figures under surveillance while waiting for the right moment.
Over the past few days, they identified a rare opening: Khamenei and several other senior officials were due to meet on Saturday morning at different locations within a Tehran government compound that houses the supreme leader's office, the presidency and the national security apparatus, making the leadership vulnerable to a military strike.
Background:
- On the morning of 28 February, Trump announced that the US had launched a large-scale operation against Iran. Israel also carried out strikes.
- Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Mohammad Pakpour, Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), were killed in morning strikes on Iran on 28 February.
- Iran responded with strikes on several Gulf countries where US military bases are located.
- Iran has announced that a three-member interim Leadership Council has been established to run the country following Khamenei's killing.
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