Owen Gregorian
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It's hard to know how true that is or exactly where that stands or what's gonna happen as a result of it.
But there's apparently some effort to get the Kurdish forces in there to fight against the IGRC and the powers that are in Iran.
There's a story about how Israel tracked down Khomeini.
I would certainly put this in the category of propaganda.
Yeah, the Financial Times is where it came from originally.
And they are claiming that Israel hacked into the Tehran traffic cameras and mobile phone towers and was able to track Khomeini that way.
They used this unit 820B and was able to get data on the bodyguards and the drivers.
They knew the parking, the routes, the duty hours.
They disrupted the phone towers to block any warnings.
They used social network analysis.
They had CIA human sources confirming the meeting.
So there's a very detailed story around this, but I just put a big question mark around it because if the CIA had done something like this, I would just assume whatever they told me was false because
Pretty consistently, we say, oh, we got to protect sources and methods.
We can't let anybody know how we did something because then we won't be able to do it anymore.
And we might burn our resources and we might, you know, it could cause all sorts of damage within intelligence.
So we can't tell you how we did it.
And they always stick to that.
Right.
And I can't imagine the same thing.
Yeah.