The telephone that changed everything
Axios estimated that this was a conversation that started the conflict and importantly affected the situation in the mediate East. On February 23, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanjahu informed US president Donald Trump that Ayatollah Ali Chamenei had a gathering in Tehran with a group of his most crucial advisors on Saturday morning, suggesting the anticipation of carrying out 1 decisive raid. This is due to the relation of 3 sources.
According to the portal, this explains why the decision to attack was made at this point, despite the doubts of any politicians, planet leaders and skeptics from the Trump community. Both Trump and Netanjah were to consider that specified an chance should not be wasted.
The American president had previously leaned towards hitting Iran, but was not determined about the deadline. The attitude was to change after talking to the Israeli Prime Minister. Representatives of the U.S. and Israeli authorities point out that the February 23 call was part of a close coordination between the leaders for months — in the 2 months preceding the attack they met twice and made 15 telephone calls.
Order from Trump
Following a Monday CIA interview, the president of the United States initially confirmed Israeli intelligence information regarding Ayatollah Ali Chamenei. Preparations accelerated erstwhile Trump signaled the Israeli Prime Minister's willingness to consider further steps, reserving that he would earlier deliver a state message in Congress.
American officials reported that Trump decided not to focus excessive attention on Iran so as not to alert Chamenei and not to get him to hide. By Thursday, the CIA was to full confirm that the designated persons would indeed meet in 1 place. On that day, the president's envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, called him from Geneva, where they had talks with Iranian representatives, informing him that the negotiations were not working.
According to sources, Trump heard that if he chose the way of diplomacy, his co-workers would search agreement, but the current signals indicate that the Iranian side is not willing to enter into a satisfactory agreement. At this point, the president was about to consider intelligence to be credible and to measure that the diplomatic solution would not have any effect. According to Axios, on Friday at 15.38 East American time he issued the final order, and eleven hours later the attack on Tehran began, resulting in Chamenei being killed and conflict broke out.
Israel hacked a network of traffic cameras in Tehran, following Ali Chamenei and another Iranian officials, allowing a fatal attack to be planned in their office. The operation utilized detailed recordings, regular analysis and safety communications interference, as well as CIA support, as stated in the Financial Times.
