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Two mornings ago I came into the kitchen where Tom sat reading the news. "You gotta see the front page of the New York Times," he said. "You're not gonna believe it, it's crazy! It's like something out of a spy novel, except that nobody would believe it!" I pulled up the front page article my mate was talking about:  As it turned out, he was right. It was crazy. It was like something our of a spy novel that nobody would believe. And if the source hadn't been the New York Times I wouldn't have believed it either. The article tells the story of the outrageously bizarre plot cooked up by Israel and years in the baking to bring down the Iranian regime and replace it with...Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. That's right, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: the Death to Israel, Death to America, Death (or at least torture) to Anyone Who Opposed Him, nuclear-proliferating hard-liner who ruled Iran with a cruel iron fist from 2005 to 2013,  ...and who likely would have ruled shorter had elections there been fair and democratic, or longer had the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei not decided his time was up. That Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Four New York Times reporters who were covering the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran,  ...got wind of a story that Israeli operatives had spent years grooming their country's supposedly despised enemy - Ahmadinejad - to take over Iran once Israel, with the help of the United States, managed to overthrow the current Iranian regime. Apparently once he was no longer in power and denied permission to ever again run for President, Ahmadinejad became a critic of the Iranian government and its brutality against its citizens. He became more a man and friend of the people. He said that if he were ever again President, he would normalize relations with Israel. He even praised Donald Trump during Trump's first term as President. Which, I suppose, begs the question of whether Ahmadinejad was courting Israel before Israel began courting him? But that's not clear at this point. In any case, according to the story (which, with a little digging, I found more pieces of in three related Times articles referenced below), at some point some years ago Israeli agents contacted Ahmadinejad and recruited him as their choice to be Iran's future leader. They met with him in secret, sometimes overseas. They gave him money for housing and travel. In 2024 the head of Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, met undercover with Ahmadinejad in Budapest, and sometime after that Mossad contacted the C.I.A., apprising the United States of Israel's plan to topple the Iranian government and install Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the new President. The plan, as Israel envisioned it, involved not only the United States and Israel launching a bombing campaign against Iran, but recruiting and training Kurdish rebels based in Northern Iraq to carry out a ground invasion at the same time into Iran to help defeat the Iranian military. Now, at what point the United States bought into this plan isn't clear. But we were in on it. Which begs another question: Were the supposed nuclear negotiations between Iran and the U.S. held in February 2026 days before Israel and the U.S. began air strikes on Iran just a smoke screen? What else could those talks have been, and how could they have been meant to succeed since the plan with Israel to bomb Iran and overthrow its government was already in place? In any case, that plan fell apart on the day it began. On February 28, 2026, Israeli bombers killed the Iranian leadership and American bombers killed 120 school children. The Kurdish rebel fighting force never materialized. But here's the strangest twist of all: On that same first day the Israelis bombed the guard compound in front of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's home, killing all his body guards. After the strike a black car driven by Mossad agents arrived on the scene, picked up Ahmadinejad and whisked him away to a safe house somewhere in Iran. From which he soon after disappeared, the circumstances of which are not clear. What does seem clear, though is that Ahmadinejad is now in the hands of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran's powerful military unit that answers to the Supreme Leader. Who was not brought down by Israeli or American bombs after all, but only replaced. And the war goes on. But now what is it for? 
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