By Tal Shalev and Jeremy Diamond, CNN
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a religious gathering in Tehran on 19 February, 2026.
Photo: “AFP / Handout / Khamenei.ir
The traffic cameras on the streets of Tehran provided a real-time view of the targets.
Hacked years ago, the cameras allowed Israel to map the city in detail, establish patterns of movement, and build an intricatecomplex picture of what was happening inside an enemy capital, according to an Israeli official.
The cameras were only one part of a much more complex system, some of whose details were first reported by The Financial Times, that allowed Israel to build one what one Israeli source familiar…