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As we all watched the unfolding of the freeing of the Iranian people and removal of the threat of Iran nuclear attack, we are learning more as we follow the news. In reading about the following scenario, a person of faith could hardly miss the answer to prayer. God has often moved in times of battle\u2013in Judges 7:19-22 we read the army of Gideon faced a foe where God caused them to turn on each other. Modern-day Israel received its God-given miracle in the form of a sandstorm in the Six-Day War that caused the Egyptian forces to be blinded. And as the American-Israel coalition forces sought to target the evil regime leadership, it wasn\u2019t just chance that 40 of them were in one location. Here\u2019s how it happened.\n<\/p>\n

In the tense prelude to a major joint offensive against Iran, American intelligence locked onto what emerged as the operation\u2019s highest-priority target: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the 86-year-old architect of Iran\u2019s theocratic regime.<\/p>\n

For months, the CIA had meticulously tracked Khamenei\u2019s movements, refining intelligence on his routines, secure residences, and protective details through persistent surveillance. The pivotal breakthrough came when U.S. agencies confirmed Khamenei would attend a critical high-level meeting of senior officials\u2014including top military commanders, Revolutionary Guard leaders, and security advisers\u2014on Saturday morning inside a fortified government compound in central Tehran.\n<\/p>\n

This intelligence prompted U.S. and Israeli planners to accelerate the operation\u2019s timeline. What had been envisioned as a nighttime strike under cover of darkness was shifted to daylight hours to seize the fleeting opportunity, officials with knowledge of the decisions said.\n<\/p>\n

The adjustment opened a narrow but devastating window: a chance to eliminate Iran\u2019s leadership core in a single, coordinated blow, including Khamenei and other key figures gathered at the site.\n<\/p>\n

What makes this outcome especially striking is how improbable it was. For decades, Khamenei had survived assassination attempts, sanctions, and multiple wars while remaining one of the most heavily guarded figures on earth. Iranian security protocols were designed precisely to prevent exactly this scenario: the supreme leader and his inner circle converging in one exposed location during a time of open threats.<\/strong> Analysts had long assessed that such a vulnerability was virtually impossible under normal conditions.\n<\/p>\n

Yet it happened.\n<\/p>\n

Many believers across the United States, Israel, and around the world are quietly viewing this as an answered prayer. In the weeks leading up to the strike, countless Christians, Jews, and supporters of Israel had prayed specifically for divine protection against the Iranian regime\u2019s nuclear ambitions and its threats to annihilate the Jewish state. They prayed that God would expose hidden weaknesses, confuse the enemy\u2019s counsel, and open a door that no human strategy alone could create.\n<\/p>\n

The extraordinary alignment of intelligence, timing, and Iranian complacency\u2014despite every reason for heightened vigilance\u2014has left many seeing the hand of providence at work. What intelligence experts called a \u201cone-in-a-million\u201d window of opportunity appeared at the precise moment when both nations were prepared to act. To those who had lifted the situation before God, the strike feels less like a purely human victory and more like heaven responding to persistent, faith-filled prayer.\n<\/p>\n

The operation also exposed glaring Iranian security lapses at a moment when both adversaries had openly signaled impending military action:\n<\/p>\n