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#US cedes key #war mission to #Israel — killing top Iranians
 The division of responsibility has left Israel to hunt & kill Iranian leaders ruthlessly, using an #ArtificialIntelligence apparatus built to #assassinate with lethal proficiency.

As US & Israeli military commanders met to map out war with #Iran, they deliberated over how to divide responsibility for an array of targets, including missile batteries, military bases & nuclear sites.

#law #WarCrimes #IranWar
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/03/30/iran-israel-war-killings/

Israel targets Iran’s leaders with lethal expertise using new AI platform

The division of responsibility has left Israel to hunt and kill Iranian leaders ruthlessly, using an intelligence apparatus built up to assassinate with lethal proficiency.

The Washington Post

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Nonilex 5h ago

It was clear from the outset, however, that one grim mission would belong to #Israel∶ hunting & killing #Iran leaders.

Israel has pursued this assignment with ruthless efficiency, killing Iran’s supreme leader in the opening salvo of the #war & >250 other “senior Iranian officials” since, acc/to a count maintained by the #IDF. The latest blow came Thursday when Israel said it had killed the naval commander of Iran’s #IRGC.

#law #tech #AI #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #Trump #Netanyahu

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Nonilex 5h ago

The decapitation campaign relies on an #assassination apparatus that #Israel spent decades building but transformed over the past several years to achieve new levels of lethal proficiency, acc/to senior Israeli #military & #intelligence ofcls.

#tech #AI #law #InternationalLaw #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #RegimeChange #Trump #Netanyahu #geopolitics #MiddleEast #TrumpsWar #IranWar

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Nonilex 5h ago

The ofcls cited sources & #surveillance capabilities inside #Iran —regime insiders recruited to spy for #Israel as well as #cyber-penetrations of thousands of targets including street cameras, payment platforms & internet choke points that Iran installed to impose communications blackouts on its citizens. These & other streams of #data are being scoured by what Israeli ofcls described as a new, classified #ArtificialIntelligence platform programmed to extract clues to leaders’ lives & movements.

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Nonilex

…Less clear, however, is whether the ongoing decapitation campaign will enable #Israel to achieve its core #war objectives∶ eradicating the threat of #Iran missiles & proxy forces, blocking its path to a nuclear weapon, & weakening the regime to the point that it could be toppled.

So far, those goals seem elusive. Those killed often have been replaced by more militant subordinates, & street protests have failed to materialize amid continued #US - Israeli bombing & fears of a regime crackdown.

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Nonilex 5h ago

Snr Israeli ofcls described the regime in #Iran as battered but resilient, stable & feeling triumphant after withstanding a month of strikes by 2 of the world’s most powerful militaries.

…Some experts worry that Israel’s growing proficiency at targeted killings, even when conducted with precision, is creating a dynamic of dependency on #assassinations & a tendency to expand the boundaries of who can be targeted.

#US #Israel #law #InternationalLaw #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #RegimeChange #IranWar

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Nonilex 5h ago

“We have taken it too far in terms of making it [#assassination] into a strategy as opposed to an occasional operational necessity,” said Ariel Levite, a nuclear policy & Israeli security expert at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
The divisions of labor in the conflict create the impression that “the #UnitedStates has relied on #Israel to do the dirty jobs in the #war,” Levite said, with the #US seeming to adopt a stance of “we can’t kill them, but we’ll be more than happy if you do.”

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Nonilex 5h ago

…#US ofcls said the division of duties reflects each sides’ capabilities & not any #legal impediments.…

#Trump has cast the strikes on Iran’s leaders as a joint undertaking. “We killed all their leadership, & then they met to choose new leaders & we killed all of them,” Trump said to reporters last week. He went on to assert that the objective of #RegimeChange had been met because “the leaders are all very different than the ones we started off with.”

#Iran #law #InternationalLaw #WarCrimes

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FurballsNHairballs 4h ago

@Nonilex
Even more stupidity on display.
I believe there was a law passed that banned assassinations at a government level.

In 1972, Title 18 was amended to make punishable under Federal law the murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, assault, or intimidation of a "foreign official" or "official guest." See Pub. L. 92-539 (1972).

Now explain Maduro,Cuba,and Iran , you assholes !!!

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