# Inside Israel’s Secret Operation to Install Ahmadinejad, Iran’s Former President, as Leader

- Published: 2026-07-13T21:47:31Z
- Updated: 2026-07-14T15:10:45Z
- Section: World
- Language: English (en)
- Source: The New York Times — https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/us/politics/israel-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-iran.html
- Tags: The New York Times · World
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The yearslong effort to groom the former Iranian president as an intelligence asset culminated in a dramatic effort to take him to a Mossad safe house in Iran in the early days of the war. But the plan fell apart.

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