The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, on February 23, called U.S. President Donald Trump with intelligence data about the whereabouts of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his advisors in Tehran. According to Axios, this call effectively became the decisive signal to start the war.
Source: “Espreso”
Netanyahu informed Trump that all key figures of the Iranian leadership would gather in one location, creating an opportunity for a single airstrike. After the CIA verified the information and confirmed the data from Israeli intelligence, Trump concluded that diplomacy had been exhausted.
On Friday at 3:38 PM Eastern Time, the U.S. President gave the order for the strike. Eleven hours later, airstrikes were carried out on Tehran, and Khamenei was killed, effectively triggering the war in the Middle East.
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