A bonkers new report suggests that the U.S. and Israel attempted to install Holocaust-denying former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iran’s leader.

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A bonkers new report suggests that the U.S. and Israel attempted to install Holocaust-denying former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iran’s leader.

The United States and Israel reportedly explored a regime-change plan in Iran after Israeli strikes allegedly killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and several top officials in the…

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s home was struck on the first day, with early rumours suggesting the leader who was Iran’s President from 2005 to 2013 had been killed. | World News

Soon after killing Iran’s supreme leader and other top officials, the US and Israel reportedly considered installing hardline former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a more…

During His Tenure as Iran's President, Ahmadinejad Fiercely Opposed Talks With the United States and Repeatedly Called for the Destruction of Israel. Israeli Strikes Intended to…

DUBAI: In the early stages of the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, officials explored a plan to reinstall former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, according to US sources…

Israel considered installing former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as ruler during the early days of the US-Israeli war on the country.

The 'audacious plan' quickly unravelled and Ahmadinejad's whereabouts are unknown, US officials told the newspaper

Inside the failed US-Israeli bid to use Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for regime change in Iran, and how Trump and Netanyahu misread Tehran’s resilience.

An Israeli strike was designed to free the former Iranian president from house arrest. It injured him instead

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Airstrike at the start of the war was aimed at freeing populist ex-president from house arrest, US newspaper claims

The U.S. and Israel reportedly planned on reinstalling former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after decapitating the regime. Yes, that guy.

A bombshell report shows how Israel and the U.S. never really cared about freeing the Iranian people.

The US and Israel reportedly planned to install former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iran's new leader

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was injured in an Israeli strike on his home that was launched to free him from house arrest, according to reports

Iran’s ex-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an anti-US and anti-Israel voice in West Asia, was discussed as part of Iran’s future leadership in Washington, DC-Tel Aviv talks, an NYT…

The idea that Israel and the United States might back Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a coup has drawn guffaws from several different groups.