Israel reportedly tracked and targeted senior Iranian leaders and nuclear scientists during the June conflict by hacking and monitoring the phones of their bodyguards and drivers, according to a New York Times report. Iranian officials, aware of assassination plots, increased security, but inadvertently enabled Israel to trace top officials through the unguarded use of mobile phones by their security teams. Israeli sources described how the reliance on bodyguards became a vulnerability, allowing them to plan strikes on key figures, including a high-ranking commander who was killed in an initial bombing. Despite new restrictions on phone use among guards, lapses allowed further targeting attempts, though not all were successful. The twelve-day conflict began with a surprise Israeli attack, aimed at crippling Iran's military and nuclear capabilities.