A New York Times report claims the US and Israel explored a regime-change strategy during the Iran war that involved reinstating former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after strikes reportedly killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The alleged plan, called “Operation Epic Fury,” aimed to weaken Iran militarily and politically, but failed to trigger a full government collapse.
Washington DC: US officials have revealed that an early objective of the war with Iran involved an ambitious regime-change strategy centred on reinstating former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the country's leader, according to The New York Times report.
The news report stated that after strikes killed Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, US President Donald Trump publicly suggested that it would be preferable if "someone from within" Iran assumed power.
The plan, reportedly developed by Mossad (the national intelligence and covert operations agency of Israel) in consultation with Ahmadinejad, aimed to use the former hard-line Iranian president despite his past rhetoric calling to "wipe Israel off the map."
While Ahmadinejad served as a fierce critic of the West during his presidency from 2005 to 2013, the news report noted that he had recently clashed with Iran's current theocratic establishment and was placed under house arrest in Tehran.
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