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Forever War (Trump's Version)

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Israel's Embarrassing Plan to Install Ahmadinejad

Forever War (Trump's Version) · Jul 15, 2026 News

Israel used its ties to Viktor Orban to lure former Iranian President Ahmadinejad to a fake Budapest climate conference, then planned to bomb his compound, kill his guards, and extract him via a Mossad agent in a Peugeot. The plan collapsed, and Ahmadinejad is now under house arrest.

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Israel's Absurd Ahmadinejad Plot: Budapest, a Peugeot, and a Kurdish Army That Never Came

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Tommy walks through the extraordinary story: Israel used its relationship with Viktor Orban to get a Hungarian university to invite Ahmadinejad to a fake climate conference in Budapest, where Israeli operatives could meet him. A parallel meeting was arranged in Guatemala. The extraction plan involved bombing Ahmadinejad's compound, killing his guards, and picking him up in a Peugeot to take him to a safe house — which he quickly abandoned. His Kurdish army backers never materialized. Ben connects Orban's far-right political symbiosis with Netanyahu, noting that Netanyahu's 2009 campaign consultants became Orban's 2010 consultants, and that Orban's allies hired Black Cube — former Mossad operatives — to spy on critics and leak to the Jerusalem Post. The broader lesson: the Mossad's vaunted reputation is for killing, not building. No one in Jerusalem apparently asked the basic question: with what army was Ahmadinejad supposed to take power?

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