Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Under House Arrest After Regime Uncovers Ties to Israel, Mossad: Report
The report says Mossad used secret payments, foreign meetings and a 2024 Budapest trip to recruit him as a possible transitional leader.
- On Monday, The New York Times reported that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps placed former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad under house arrest after authorities uncovered a significant portion of his contacts with Israel.
- Israeli intelligence officials conducted a yearslong covert operation, known as Operation Roaring Lion, aiming to recruit Ahmadinejad as an asset and potentially position him to lead a post-Islamic Republic government.
- David Barnea, then-head of the Shin Bet, traveled to Budapest in early 2024 to meet with Ahmadinejad, using a climate conference invitation from Ludovika University rector Gergely Deli as cover for secret talks.
- Following an Israeli strike, operatives briefly moved Ahmadinejad to a secure location, though the broader plan ultimately failed and he later resurfaced publicly at funeral ceremonies for Iran's supreme leader.
- Intelligence officials reportedly viewed the former leader as a viable alternative due to his growing estrangement from Iran's ruling establishment, though both Israeli officials and his spokesperson declined to comment on the investigation.
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Israeli secret services met Ahmadinejad several times, who was one of the vertices of the plan to change the regime. Former Iranian President moderated himself in recent years.
The aim was to prepare the former president to put him in power instead of the current regime. The Iranian spoke several times with Israeli agents. He is now in the custody of the Revolutionary Guard intelligence service.
The New York Times reconstructs the details of Mossad's attempt to recruit the former Iranian falcon president. His metamorphosis, meetings abroad and the raid to take him away after a raid on his home. Until his no in extremis. Now the mysterious reappeared at the...
US Officials Say Iran’s Ahmadinejad Was Mossad Asset, Met With Intel Chief In Hungary
US Officials Say Iran’s Ahmadinejad Was Mossad Asset, Met With Intel Chief In Hungary Iran’s former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of all people? The New York Times is out with a bombshell report on Monday which alleges that Israel’s Mossad has for years sought to cultivate him as an Israeli intelligence asset. Flash90 The apparent multi-year effort to recruit and re-install Ahmadinejad as leader of Iran has come to nothing, at a momen…
Ex-Iran President under house arrest over Israel plot to install him as leader: NYT
The New York Times has reported that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad held secret contacts with Israeli intelligence during an alleged regime-change effort. The claims, centred on meetings in Hungary and a failed extraction plan, remain unverified and officially unanswered.
The U.S. newspaper 'The New York Times' has revealed in a report published on Monday that Israel drew up a plan to make Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian president between 2005 and 2013, an asset to lead a regime change in Iran, even covering the expenses of his travels abroad. According to the aforementioned media, at the beginning of 2024, a rector of a Hungarian university received a commission to organize a conference on climate change, to which …
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