{"id":147036,"date":"2026-03-01T19:21:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T19:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147036"},"modified":"2026-03-01T19:21:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T19:21:50","slug":"cia-tracked-iranian-leaders-for-months-before-strikes-sharing-intelligence-with-israelunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147036","title":{"rendered":"CIA tracked Iranian leaders \u2018for months\u2019 before strikes, sharing intelligence with IsraelUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe CIA had been tracking the movements of senior Iranian leaders, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, for months.<br \/>\nThat is according to a person familiar with the operation who was not authorised to comment publicly and spoke on Sunday on condition of anonymity.<br \/>\nThe intelligence was shared with Israeli officials, and the timing of this weekend\u2019s strikes was adjusted in part because of that information, the person said. The New York Times earlier reported on the CIA\u2019s efforts ahead&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/middle-east\/article\/3345057\/cia-tracked-iranian-leaders-months-strikes-sharing-intelligence-israel?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe CIA had been tracking the movements of senior Iranian leaders, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, for months. That is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147036"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}