TEHRAN, Iran — While Iranian diplomats and officials have been working for the past two months in successive meetings to lower the walls of distrust between Iran and the governments of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany, or P5+1, the revelation of that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who enjoys a special sanctity in the Iranian power structure, had been bugged by the Americans has not been met with a strong reaction from Iran.
The most recent reports based on former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden's documents show that the NSA had bugged Khamenei during his trip to the Kurdistan region in 2009, a month before the presidential elections. According to these documents, when the NSA became aware of Khamenei’s trip to the Kurdistan region of Iran, it organized a mission with advanced espionage technology under the code name Dreadnought.