The 2026 Iran war marks a historic shift in global espionage as the CIA and Mossad fuse human intelligence with artificial intelligence.

While AI-driven data enabled the high-precision strike on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, it also led to catastrophe: a US airstrike on a school in Minab based on outdated data.

Experts warn that as boundaries between human intuition and tech collapse, the decline of "human-in-the-loop" oversight risks fatal errors and hampers back-channel peace talks.