US Planned to Install Ahmadinejad to Lead Iran After the War

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Early War Goal Was to Install Hard-Line Former President as Iran’s Leader

An Israeli strike designed to free Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from house arrest in Tehran, U.S. officials said, was part of an effort to bring about regime change and put him in power.

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.

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, according to the U.S. officials who were briefed on it.

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.
 

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To be honest, Ahmadinejad might have been a good choice. He never struck me as quite as bad as our press made him seem - as compared to the real hard line clerics running Iran. But maybe hard line enough to be acceptable to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps after the dust settled.

Which is to say that - head-scratcher though it may be - it might not have been as nutty as it sounds.

Maybe that's why Israel targeted him? If that's what happened. They don't want the US to settle for a gentler Islamist Iran. They'd rather have a totally failed Iran. Less dangerous to them.
 
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Early War Goal Was to Install Hard-Line Former President as Iran’s Leader

An Israeli strike designed to free Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from house arrest in Tehran, U.S. officials said, was part of an effort to bring about regime change and put him in power.

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.

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, according to the U.S. officials who were briefed on it.

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.


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To be honest, Ahmadinejad might have been a good choice. He never struck me as quite as bad as our press made him seem - as compared to the real hard line clerics running Iran. But maybe hard line enough to be acceptable to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps after the dust settled.

Which is to say that - head-scratcher though it may be - it might not have been as nutty as it sounds.

Maybe that's why Israel targeted him? If that's what happened. They don't want the US to settle for a gentler Islamist Iran. They'd rather have a totally failed Iran. Less dangerous to them.

Fair point. But of course these blood thirsty savages in our government and in Israel either killed him or indefinitely sidelined him by bombing his house with him in it.

If this were a movie script it would be rejected for being entirely too far-fetched.
 

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US Planned to Install Ahmadinejad to Lead Iran After the War.


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But the audacious plan, developed by the Israelis and which Mr. Ahmadinejad had been consulted about, quickly went awry, according to the U.S. officials who were briefed on it.




Spot the difference.
 

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Fair point. But of course these blood thirsty savages in our government and in Israel either killed him or indefinitely sidelined him by bombing his house with him in it.

If this were a movie script it would be rejected for being entirely too far-fetched.
I was going to say "I'd pay to watch that movie" but I don't have to. It's playing out in real time.

I wonder if they've written the ending yet.
 

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US Planned to Install Ahmadinejad to Lead Iran After the War.


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But the audacious plan, developed by the Israelis and which Mr. Ahmadinejad had been consulted about, quickly went awry, according to the U.S. officials who were briefed on it.




Spot the difference.
I did.

One of them acknowledges who is really the War Daddy calling the shots for the American military.

And the other is trying to give the illusion that America is actually making decisions on how to use its own military.
 

WDDT

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I did.

One of them acknowledges who is really the War Daddy calling the shots for the American military.

And the other is trying to give the illusion that America is actually making decisions on how to use its own military.
Now how could that information be used to correct the OP?

You got this.
 

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so we secretly came to an agreement with our first choice prez for iran only to happily release this info and presumably assure him an execution? i don’t know what to make of this
 

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But the audacious plan, developed by the Israelis and which Mr. Ahmadinejad had been consulted about, quickly went awry, according to the U.S. officials who were briefed on it.




Spot the difference.
Aren't you the same d'pshit that said this would be 48 hours of fury and we would would be handed a title belt?

Now you want reality involved? Appreciate the lol, dummy.
 

WDDT

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Really? I thought we were "sh't kicking them" and this wasn't a war, would be done in under a week?

Anyone that pays for HORT have a second to fact check?
Those are two different claims. Yes, we were **** kicking them, to the point some were using the word genocide at what might happen next.


Hope this helps.