Ziel des frühen Krieges war es, den ehemaligen Hardliner-Präsidenten als iranischen Führer einzusetzen
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/politics/iran-israel-us-leader-ahmadinejad.html
Ziel des frühen Krieges war es, den ehemaligen Hardliner-Präsidenten als iranischen Führer einzusetzen
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/politics/iran-israel-us-leader-ahmadinejad.html
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Submission statement.
The US/Israel-Iran war is something that started as a regime change war and it has become apparent that the Venezuela-parallel (Ahmanidejad-Delcy) and the Israeli-Netanyahu enticement/goading Trump into the war theories are very likely the facts.
Interesting how they would have thought Ahmadinejad would be willing to play ball – he is an ideologue – but maybe the Israelis never really believed with high confidence he would, they just needed to show a Delcy to Trump.
Also interesting how even Mossad wasn’t able to pull his freeing off – it should remind us all how actual operations on the ground never have a 100 percent chance of going according to plans. See: Mojtaba Khamenei’s survival (while his family was assassinated and him probably disfigured which did not help the US/Israeli case) by chance. Which connects to the effects of the event described in the article.
Edit: On reflection I am adding more of my own thoughts in that Israel seemed less than enthusiastic about actual regime change as a goal even when that seemed marginally possible. See how Khamenei’s bombing killed officials identified to be more willing to be pragmatic too [here](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/us/politics/iran-war-first-week.html) or more tellingly Larijani’s [assassination](https://www.chosun.com/english/world-en/2026/03/19/BI3OCEYLQBC4XBD65ETTZOSABQ/) just as he was becoming more and more willing to make a deal. Israel does and did not seem to have wanted a VZLA-analogue. They wanted a failed or balkanized or almost failed Iran (see a Mossad-backed Kurdish [insurgency](https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-israeli-plan-for-kurdish-invasion-of-iran-reportedly-collapsed-amid-leaks-distrust/) almost having been launched). I will add that the costs of that in human lives and missile, drone and nuclear technology entering the terrorist black market is huge, however.
So their idea was to install a person who would likely turn on them. But then they almost killed him in a drone strike and he turned on them too early?!
Whether Israeli disinformation or DJP delusion, it reads more like the plot to Southpark episode of Underpants Gnomes than a war plan to topple a sorverign government.
As a wise individual said many, many times: Hope ain’t a strategy
From the same news paper that recently published a piece claiming that Israel was raping prisoners with dogs. At this point the NYT is as credible as Goebbels.
this article gonna get the man killed lol.
Because that’s worked out so well in the past.
> Mr. Ahmadinejad was injured on the war’s first day by an Israeli strike at his home in Tehran that had been designed to free him from house arrest, the American officials and an associate of Mr. Ahmadinejad said. He survived the strike, they said, but after the near miss he became disillusioned with the regime change plan.
> He has not been seen publicly since then and his current whereabouts and condition are unknown.
Breathtaking idiocy. These are obviously people who think every political problem can be solved by firing the right missile at it.
Yeah, I’m gonna doubt this one and pretty much anything but New York Times published from now on.
This makes absolutely no sense. This decision alone would’ve lost BB the next election before it even started.
Wouldn’t be surprised if this was leaked to cause internal chaos or to deflect from who they really want in power.
So they killed the previous Supreme Leader who issued a *fatwa* against nuclear weapons and planned to reinstate the guy who was one of the strongest supporter of their nuclear civil program.
At this point, *The Onion* journalists can just resign to the fact that they can’t be crazier than real life.
If you weren’t already deeply concerned about American strategy we made a regime change plan to put AHMADINEJAD in as the US/Israeli favored leader.
We’re in a truly stupid timeline. I get that apparently he has said nice things about Trump which is mostly what he cares about but still what a garbage strategy. Holy crap.