Strange Timing Explained

A lot of assets were still moving into theater, dependents hadn't been evacuated from Naval Support Activity Bahrain and other facilities that were within an easy chip shot of Iranian Fateh launchers across the Gulf, and the attacks were launched in broad daylight... this was obviously something launched on the fly rather than a preplanned zero hour.

Via Matthew Ford, author of War in the Smartphone Age and other books, the Israelis had, in addition to having hacked one of the most popular apps in Iran, gotten intel that Khamenei and other high-ranking Iranian government officials would be meeting in a specific place at a specific time, so that's why the snap launch of a decapitation strike.

EDIT: According to an NYT piece, CIA's trying to claim credit for the intel.

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