by Yonah Jeremy Bob
The Mossad's failure may not have been its plan to install Ahmadinejad as Iran's new leader, but its inability to anticipate Trump would halt key parts of it.
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The New York Times publication on Monday of meticulously detailed Mossad plans to recruit, pick up, and prepare former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to take over the Islamic Republic from the current regime raised a new question: Was the Ahmadinejad plan a success or a failure?
Between foreign reports, public confirmation by former head of Military Intelligence Tamir Hayman, and The Jerusalem Post's own Western sources, it has been known now for some time that the Mossad sought to replace Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The New York Times had previous, more speculative reports on the issue which were eventually confirmed by Hayman to the PBS network, and which created the space for the Post to receive confirmation, though Israeli journalists often cannot publish all that they know.
From the perspective of the end of the story, with Ahmadinejad under house arrest, the details of the plan blown out into the open, likely by American sources seeking to block future Israeli adventurism (as they see it) with regime change in Iran, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps still firmly in control of the country - the plot was an abject failure, clouding other recent successes.
But from an Israeli perspective, if the US had acted differently, everything might have gone differently.
Yonah Jeremy Bob
Source: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-902495
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