Posted on 07/14/2026 3:07:34 PM PDT by Twotone
Former Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been placed under house arrest by the country’s notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps following a failed Israeli plot to install him in place of the current theocratic regime, according to a stunning new report.
The New York Times, citing four Iranian officials, reported Monday that the 69-year-old is being held by the IRGC’s intelligence wing after he left a safe house run by Israel’s Mossad.
Before last week, Ahmadinejad had not been seen in public since an Israeli airstrike hit his compound in the early hours of Operation Epic Fury Feb. 28, after which he was spirited away to the safe house, the Times reported, citing US and Iranian officials.
The former president, who ran Iran with an iron fist from 2005 to 2013, re-emerged last week — apparently flanked by security guards — during funeral ceremonies for the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the same day as the strike on Ahmadinejad’s compound.
The Times initially reported in May that the US and Israel had attempted to put Ahmadinejad — who became a global hate figure during his presidency for publicly denying the Holocaust, calling for the destruction of Israel, and restarting his country’s nuclear weapons program — back in the seat of power.
Ahmadinejad increasingly clashed with the Islamic Republic’s rulers, having been blocked from seeking his old job in 2017, 2021 and 2024.
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Someone on our side should say he’s one of us. A retired general perhaps. Let them be the one to take him out.
“Ex-Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said to be under house arrest over reported Israeli contacts”. He’s getting cozy with the Jews?
Obviously the IRCG is the reason we cannot get things stabilized there. They have the guns, all of the guns.
Sounds like a clean-up to prevent exposure before they might bug out.
Might be what israel did ;-)
I don’t know if Ahmadinejad was in contact with the Israelis or not.
But that was one of Stalin’s favorite tricks. To get rid of some high official, Stalin would accuse him of being an agent of a foreign power. It was usually Germany or Great Britain.
Then came the beatings and the forced confession.
Perhaps that will be in Ahmadinejad’s future.
LOL...
They have motivated the Muslims to start killing their own leadership!
Using Iranian paranoia against Iranians like Reagan used Soviet paranoia against the Soviets with SDI (”Star Wars”).
Yup.
I though we offed him??
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