According to an investigative report by The New York Times published on July 13, 2026, Israeli intelligence spent years cultivating former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a source. But a plan to move him to an Israeli safe house fell apart in the early days of the war.
Ahmadinejad served as Iran’s president from 2005 to 2013. In intelligence work, a “source” is someone recruited by a foreign agency to provide information or carry out operations. If the account of the operation is accur
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