Here’s the wild back story behind a failed plan to install Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iran’s next leader. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reportedly wooed by Mossad agents after distancing himself from KhameneiMiddle East crisis live – latest updatesIsrael tried to recruit Iran’s intensely anti-Zionist former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to lead a new post-Islamic regime in Tehran, and even sent its top spy to Budapest to meet him, according to media reports.The remarkable quest to turn a leader who had denied the Holocaust and called for Israel’s erasure began in 2022, according to reporting by the New York Times and the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, and continued even after Israel became engaged in a brutal campaign in Gaza against Hamas, a key Iranian ally. NYT cites US officials, sources as saying yearslong regime change plot involved at least 2 meetings with Mossad in Hungary, as Israel looked to prop up anti-Israel Holocaust-denier The post Report: Ahmadinejad met Mossad chief under Israeli plan to install him as Iran leader appeared first on The Times of Israel.
Israel's Mossad reportedly sought to recruit Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for regime change. Secret meetings and financial aid were allegedly provided to the former Iranian president. An attempted extraction from Tehran failed after Ahmadinejad grew dissatisfied with the plan.
Iranian authorities later placed Ahmadinejad under house arrest after uncovering his alleged contacts.
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