The New York Times reveals a bizarre US-Israeli regime-change scheme to return former hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, rumored to be a secret Israeli agent, to power.
One detail in particular argues that, as The New York Times has reported, Israel actually counted on engineering regime change in Iran by installing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the new head of government. The Times recalls that in a 2019 interview with the paper Ahmadinejad spoke admiringly of Donald Trump, praising him as “a man of action” capable of a businessman’s cost-benefits analysis in approaching negotiations and thus implicitly logical partner in fashioning a rapprochement between Teheran and Washington. Such a perspective would have seriously commended Ahmadinejad to Netanyahu and his Mossad coup makers since it meant that they could easily sell their regime change scenario to egoist Trump. This in itself suggests the Israelis were indeed dead-serious about putting this unlikely guy in charge and that all the noise about it now is much more than mischief-making disinformation on their part to sow confusion within Iran’s battered paranoid leadership. Also, for Trump, embracing a half-nasty like Ahmadinejad would have fit the scenario he followed in Venezuela where Maduro’s one-time deputy now holds sway thanks to the US.
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"The scheme seemed laced with mind-boggling paradoxes and intrigues." In other words, it doesn't make sense.
Yet more evidence that bombing your way to regime change does not work.
One detail in particular argues that, as The New York Times has reported, Israel actually counted on engineering regime change in Iran by installing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the new head of government. The Times recalls that in a 2019 interview with the paper Ahmadinejad spoke admiringly of Donald Trump, praising him as “a man of action” capable of a businessman’s cost-benefits analysis in approaching negotiations and thus implicitly logical partner in fashioning a rapprochement between Teheran and Washington. Such a perspective would have seriously commended Ahmadinejad to Netanyahu and his Mossad coup makers since it meant that they could easily sell their regime change scenario to egoist Trump. This in itself suggests the Israelis were indeed dead-serious about putting this unlikely guy in charge and that all the noise about it now is much more than mischief-making disinformation on their part to sow confusion within Iran’s battered paranoid leadership. Also, for Trump, embracing a half-nasty like Ahmadinejad would have fit the scenario he followed in Venezuela where Maduro’s one-time deputy now holds sway thanks to the US.
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