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How did Israel manage to eliminate Supreme Leader Khamenei and his top lieutenants within the opening strike of Operation Roaring Lion? How was the Iranian regime infiltrated? What tactical abilities were necessary to deliver the final blow? And how much of it was luck?
Ronen Bergman, senior correspondent for Yedioth Ahronoth and The New York Times Magazine, takes Dan through the story of Khamenei’s killing from plan to execution, and through the many ways in which things could have gone differently.
In this episode:
3:00 – How did Israel know where Khamenei was hiding?
8:43 – Was Iran careless?
14:50 – How did the plan to strike Khamenei take shape?
15:34 – 6am on the morning when it happened
22:01 – Sponsor break: United Hatzalah
22:57 – Immediate aftermath: What happened after the decapitation strike?
23:37 – The second and third waves of the attack
28:33 – Iran's attack on Arab states: another miscalculation?
33:25 – What's the mood in Iran?
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Credits: Ilan Benatar, Adaam James Levin-Areddy, Brittany Cohen, Ava Weiner, Martin Huergo, Mariangeles Burgos, and Patricio Spadavecchia, Yuval Semo
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