Published Jul 13, 2026, 5:17 AM ET · Updated 4 months ago · 1 source
Inside Israel’s Secret Operation to Cultivate Ahmadinejad
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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 an Israeli safe house in the early days of the war. But the plan fell apart.