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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIsrael Thought It Could Spur Rebellion Inside Iran. That Hasn't Happened. (The bullshit they sold the moron)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/us/politics/iran-israel-trump-netanyahu-mossad.htmlhttps://archive.ph/RNdYy
Israel Thought It Could Spur Rebellion Inside Iran. That Hasnt Happened.
President Trumps hopes that an Israeli plan to ignite an internal uprising against Irans theocratic government could bring the war to a swift end have so far been dashed.
By Mark Mazzetti, Julian E. Barnes, Edward Wong and Ronen Bergman
March 22, 2026 Updated 3:39 p.m. ET
As the United States and Israel prepared to go to war with Iran, the head of Mossad, Israels foreign intelligence service, went to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a plan.
Within days of the wars beginning, said David Barnea, the Mossad chief, his service would likely be able to galvanize the Iranian opposition igniting riots and other acts of rebellion that could even lead to the collapse of Irans government. Mr. Barnea also presented the proposal to senior Trump administration officials during a visit to Washington in mid-January.
Mr. Netanyahu adopted the plan. Despite doubts about its viability among senior American officials and some officials in other Israeli intelligence agencies, both he and President Trump seemed to embrace an optimistic outlook. Killing Irans leaders at the outset of the conflict, followed by a series of intelligence operations intended to encourage regime change, they thought, could lead to a mass uprising that might bring about a swift end to the war.
Take over your government: It will be yours to take, Mr. Trump told Iranians in his initial address at the wars start, after saying they should first seek shelter from the bombing.
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Israel Thought It Could Spur Rebellion Inside Iran. That Hasn't Happened. (The bullshit they sold the moron) (Original Post)
dalton99a
14 hrs ago
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SamuelTheThird
(1,085 posts)1. Sure they did
Plan was/is to make it a failed state
David__77
(24,640 posts)2. I wonder how many of its agents inside Iran have already been killed.