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Exclusive: Iran's Khamenei warned Nasrallah of Israeli plot to kill him, sources say (www.reuters.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/30176253

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Hezbollah leader Syyed Hassan Nasrallah to flee Lebanon days before he was killed in an Israeli strike and is now deeply worried about Israeli infiltration of senior government ranks in Tehran, three Iranian sources said.

In the immediate aftermath of the attack on Hezbollah's booby-trapped pagers on Sept. 17, Khamenei sent a message with an envoy to beseech the Hezbollah secretary general to leave for Iran, citing intelligence reports that suggested Israel had operatives within Hezbollah and was planning to kill him, one of the sources, a senior Iranian official, told Reuters.

The messenger, the official said, was a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander, Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan, who was with Nasrallah in his bunker when it was hit by Israeli bombs and was also killed.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Wow, that's a pretty intense situation! If that's true, it's kind of like something straight out of a spy movie, right? Politics in the Middle East is like a complex chess game. Hope cooler heads will prevail, though, and peace becomes more of a focus.