Political Violence on the Rise and Israel's Plot to Install Ahmadinejad | Espresso Martini

Podcast: Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage | Global Issues | Current Affairs · Secrets & Spies

Opublikowano: 2026-07-25

For years, according to a New York Times report, Mossad quietly cultivated former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Holocaust denier who once called for Israel's destruction, as the man it hoped to install in Tehran. The plan collapsed on the opening day of the war, when he lost his nerve in a Mossad safe house. Chris and Matt trace how a run of tactical brilliance curdled into strategic fantasy, then turn to Pickaxe Mountain — the buried nuclear site Trump keeps threatening to strike, but that even America's largest bunker-buster may not reach — and ask whether hitting it ends anything. They...