Israel had made a long plan to secretly prepare former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as its asset, so that during the US-Israel war, a coup could be made in Iran and make him the new leader, but the plan failed. This information has been given in a report of New York Times.

These efforts were started towards Israel from 2024. Israel had invited Ahmadinejad on the pretext of a climate conference at Ludovica University in Hungary. There the then head of Mossad, David Barnia, met him. Israel also paid for his accommodation and travels.

Israel’s objective was to make Ahmadinejad an intelligence asset and establish him as the new leader of Iran during the war. Let us tell you that he was a fundamentalist earlier, but later adopted a moderate stance. He himself had expressed his desire to gain power with foreign help. As soon as the war started, his compound was attacked by Israeli airstrike.

Where is Ahmadinejad now?
Mossad agents took him to a safe house in a black Peugeot car, but Ahmadinejad became angry and disillusioned with the plan. Currently he is in the custody of the intelligence branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC). Iran has got information about his contact with Israel. He was recently seen at the funeral of late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

This report is based on information provided by American and Iranian officials. Israel and Ahmadinejad’s spokesperson refused to comment on this. Let us tell you that this report is also important because he was stopped from contesting the presidential election thrice. Ahmadinejad was barred from contesting presidential elections in 2017, 2021 and 2024.

Ahmadinejad had turned against Khamenei
After leaving the post of President, he changed his look and started looking completely moderate. Ahmadinejad had turned against Khamenei. Especially after 2011, there was a deep dispute between the two. Khamenei openly supported Ahmadinejad in the 2005 and 2009 elections. Khamenei also saved him during the massive demonstrations after the disputed 2009 elections.

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Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei, son of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is in the news these days because he has been elected as the new supreme leader in place of his father. Many experts say that he seems to be at the forefront of this race. Mojtaba is the son of former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Ali Khamenei was killed in a joint attack by Israel and America.

Mojtab was born in Mashhad in 1969

Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, is the second son of Ali Khamenei. He was born in 1969 in Mashhad. This was the time when Iran was under Shah rule, about ten years before the Islamic Revolution of 1979.

Close ties to the Revolutionary Guards

Mojtaba Khamenei is known for his close ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC). After completing high school, he entered the Islamic Military Corps in 1987. He served in the last phase of the Iran-Iraq war which lasted from 1980 to 1988. The very next year in 1989, his father Ali Khamenei was appointed Supreme Leader of Iran after the death of Ruhollah Khomeini.

religious education and teaching

After this, Mojtaba Khamenei studied with the country’s great religious leaders in Qom. He also taught in a religious seminary. During this time he strengthened his relations with religious leaders. He also got special recognition because of his father’s position. Mojtaba never appeared in public much. He mostly worked behind the scenes. It is said that he also handled the operation of the Supreme Leader’s office from behind the scenes.

Allegations made in 2005 elections

When conservative leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected president in 2005, reformists accused Mojtaba of colluding with religious leaders and the Revolutionary Guards to play a role in Ahmadinejad’s victory.

Reformist leader Mehdi Karrubi had accused the ‘son of a master’ of interfering in the elections. At that time, Ali Khamenei had defended his son and said that he was ‘a master himself, not just the son of a master’.

Discussion on succession in 2024

In 2024, the Assembly of Experts met on the succession plan of the Supreme Leader. At that time Ali Khamenei had said that his son should be kept out of this idea.

Concern about family power

If Mojtaba is made the supreme leader, it may increase dissatisfaction in the country. In the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was removed from power and the tradition of dynastic rule was ended. In such a situation, many people will not like the son getting the post after the father. Especially those people who had protested earlier this year on economic issues, which later turned into a big movement against the government.

A sign of the hold of fundamentalists?

Some analysts believe that if Mojtaba is selected, it will signal that radicals associated with the Revolutionary Guards are still strong in power and that there is little chance of major changes in the future. According to the Iranian government, Mojtaba Khamenei’s wife Zahra Adel, his mother Mansoura Khojasteh Bagherzadeh and one of his sons were also killed along with Ali Khamenei in the recent attacks.

After the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei amidst the ongoing war in the Middle East, now the news of the death of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has come to light. Iranian Labor News Agency claimed on Sunday (1 March 2026) that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has died in an Israeli-US airstrike. He was the President of Iran from 2005 to 2013.

Claim of death of Iran’s former president

The report claimed that Ahmadinejad’s residence in Narmak, northeast of Tehran, was targeted in this attack, in which he and several bodyguards were killed. Before becoming president, Ahmadinejad served as governor of Ardabil province and mayor of Tehran. He was known for his anti-West stance. Ahmadinejad had many times made statements like denying the existence of Israel and erasing it from the world map.

Iran will continue to answer America and Israel: Pezeshkian

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said that after the death of the Supreme Leader, the new leadership council has started its work. He said that Iran will continue to give a strong response to the attacks by America and Israel. The news of Khamenei’s death has not only created an uproar in the politics of West Asia, but has also sparked a new debate on the controversial rule of the leader who maintained tight control over Iran for 36 years. Khamenei was almost as influential in Iranian society as his predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who founded the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979.

Demonstration in India after Khamenei’s death

After the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, people of Shia community in different parts of India from Kashmir to Karnataka took to the streets on Sunday and expressed anger and sorrow over this development. Scenes of mourning and sloganeering were also seen in New Delhi, Bihar, Jharkhand and Telangana, where protesters holding posters of Khamenei expressed their anger against US and Israeli military actions.