Inside Israel’s Secret Operation to Cultivate Ahmadinejad

The yearslong effort to groom the former Iranian president as an intelligence asset culminated in a dramatic effort to take him to an Israeli safe house in the early days...

By Mark Mazzetti, Julian E. Barnes, Farnaz Fassihi and Ronen Bergman · The New York Times – World

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