The strikes on Iranian targets in graphics.

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The attack on Iran’s power structure

 

The United States and Israel launched their most ambitious attacks on Iran in decades in an operation that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Israel also said the attacks killed several key figures in Iran’s military leadership.

Israeli military operations over the past two years had already killed some of Iran’s senior military officials and severely weakened several of Tehran’s once-feared proxy forces across the Middle East.

Our graphics team mapped out the strikes and which leaders have been killed

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