On Feb. 28, Israel vividly demonstrated the potential of such systems to be hacked and used against adversaries when Israel tracked down Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with the help of Tehran's own street cameras - despite repeated warnings that Iran's surveillance systems had been compromised.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared total victory. "Without a doubt, the Iranian nation defeated the Americans and the Zionists in the 12-day war," he said triumphantly on November 26. "They failed to achieve any of their goals." Speaking a day earlier, Hassan Rouhani, a former president and a rival of Khamenei, recommended instead that Iran stop underestimating its adversaries and focus on using diplomacy to deter another war.