On March 1, 2026, news broke around the world that Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been killed in a targeted strike. What makes this event historic is not just the political earthquake it sent across the Middle East, but how it was carried out: this was not a traditional military operation driven by human commanders step-by-step, but a war campaign largely designed, coordinated, and executed by artificial intelligence. In just 11 minutes and 23 seconds, the United States completed a precision assassination with zero American casualties and zero collateral damage—a milestone that marks AI’s first full-scale, high-stakes entry into real-world combat. Codenamed “Silent Quds”, the operation seemed surprisingly…