Inside Trump’s decision to attack Iran: ‘A window of opportunity’
by Hugo Lowell and Andrew Roth in Washington from on (#73XG5)
The US joined an Israeli assault after intel suggested Iran's top clerics and commanders could be hit at once
Donald Trump launched attacks against Iran on Saturday alongside Israel after they developed intelligence that they could simultaneously target the country's leaders and mullahs at a compound in Tehran, according to two people familiar with deliberations.
The Israelis had been tracking the movements of Iran's top leaders and determined, in conjunction with the United States, that there was a window of opportunity to kill them and Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as they convened, the people said.
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