The Failed Gambit: Western Intelligence and the Ahmadinejad Succession Strategy
A Strategic Miscalculation In the early stages of recent regional conflicts, intelligence officials from the United States and Israel reportedly developed a clandestine plan to install former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the country’s leader. The proposal, documented in recent reports by The New York Times, sought to leverage Ahmadinejad’s populist base to destabilize the…