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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the US and Israel’s unlikely choice to lead Iran
ByRobert Tait in Washington May 20, 2026

Populist former president’s falling-out with the Tehran regime allegedly drew him into a takeover plotUS and Israel hoped to install Ahmadinejad as Iran’s leaderFor all their outward differences, there always seemed to be things that linked Mahmoud Ahm…

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US and Israel ‘hoped to install Ahmadinejad as Iran’s leader’
ByPatrick Wintour Diplomatic editor May 20, 2026

Airstrike at the start of the war was aimed at freeing populist ex-president from house arrest, US newspaper claimsMiddle East crisis – live updatesFresh questions have been raised over the US and Israeli effort to depose the Iranian regime after it wa…

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Why is Iran’s nuclear programme so essential to its identity?
ByPatrick Wintour June 23, 2025

Why does a country with large oil reserves feel such a need to have home-grown civil nuclear energy?Middle East crisis – live updatesIn October 1978, two leaders of the Iranian opposition to the British-backed shah of Iran met in the Paris suburbs of N…

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‘This friend of ours will soon be an enemy’: how Iran became Israel’s foe
ByRobert Tait in Washington June 22, 2025

Iran was once an ally of Israel and the US, but after the 1979 revolution that disposed the shah, alliances shiftedWith the US now in open warfare with Iran in a long-heralded conflict triggered by fear for Israel’s existence, it is worth recalling the…

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‘This friend of ours will soon be an enemy’: how Iran became Israel’s foe
ByRobert Tait in Washington June 22, 2025

Iran was once an ally of Israel and the US, but after the 1979 revolution that disposed the shah, alliances shiftedWith the US now in open warfare with Iran in a long-heralded conflict triggered by fear for Israel’s existence, it is worth recalling the…

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