A bombshell report alleges that Israel spent years cultivating one of its most notorious adversaries, former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in a covert effort to position him as a potential leader of a post-Islamic Republic of Iran.
Citing American, Israeli and Iranian officials familiar with the intelligence operation, The New York Times reported that the head of Israel's foreign intelligence agency Mossad, David Barnea, secretly met with Ahmadinejad abroad, paid for some of his travel and housing expenses, and even developed a contingency plan to extract him from Tehran during the recent U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran.
