According to The New York Times, former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears to have been the figure Donald Trump had in mind when, during the first days of the Middle East war, he stated that it would be better if “someone from within” Iran took over the country’s leadership. However, the plan — reportedly devised by the Israelis and one that Ahmadinejad himself had been informed about — quickly went wrong, according to US officials. The reason? An Israeli bombing raid on the first day of the war targeting his home in Tehran, which had allegedly been designed to free...