“Days after Israeli strikes killed Iran’s supreme leader and other top officials in the opening salvos of the war, President Trump mused publicly that it would be best if “someone from within” Iran took over the country,” the New York Times reports.
“It turns out that the United States and Israel went into the conflict with a particular and very surprising someone in mind: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former Iranian president known for his hard-line, anti-Israel and anti-American views.”
“But the audacious plan, developed by the Israelis and which Mr. Ahmadinejad had been consulted about, quickly went awry.”
