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

For all their outward differences, there always seemed to be things that linked Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Donald Trump.

New reports and emerging claims are now raising deeper questions about whether the Trump-Netanyahu framework extended beyond military pressur into the realm of political engineering inside Iran itself.

How Ahmadinejad was recruited to take part remains unknown.

President Donald Trump had been open about the US-Israeli plan to initiate “regime change” in Iran, replacing the old establishment with “someone from within”.