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Inside Israel’s Secret Operation to Install Ahmadinejad, Iran’s Former President, as Leader

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The yearslong effort to groom the former Iranian president as an intelligence asset culminated in a dramatic effort to take him to a Mossad safe house in Iran in the early days of the war. But the plan fell apart

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Inside Israel’s Secret Operation to Install Ahmadinejad, Iran’s Former President, as Leader

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