In late February 2026, Israel delivered a decisive blow that crippled Iran’s ballistic, nuclear, and geostrategic capabilities. It exposed the hollowness of the mullahs’ surveillance state and defeated the Russia-China-Iran axis threatening to encircle the West and export terrorism.
While American and Israeli forces struck physical targets, the decisive victory came from cyberspace. Mossad and Israel’s military signals intelligence units had spent years penetrating Tehran’s traffic cameras, municipal CCTV, mobile networks, and payment systems. Artificial intelligence fused this data with human intelligence to track then-Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and more than 250 senior regime and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officials with lethal precision.
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