"A Tuesday report alleged that the U.S. and Israel had consulted Ahmadinejad about taking over the regime he once led, but that a failed strike on his home in Tehran on the first day of war in February, designed to kill the guards keeping him prisoner, left him injured. Former President Joe Biden's ex-national security advisor John Kirby noted that the report showed that regime change was a key part of the motivation for the conflict, more than administration officials have been willing to admit. Clearly this was baked right into the beginning of it, he said, arguing the approach seemed modeled on the operation to replace Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela."
"Scarborough then mocked the idea outright, repeating his previous claim that there have never been moderates in Iran. Running through the U.S.'s fraught history with the regime over its 47-year history, the host laughed out loud at the idea that the Trump administration had hoped Ahmadinejad might be an option. Throughout Ahmadinejad's term as president of Iran, between 2005 to 2013, he repeatedly threatened to attack Israel and spouted anti-U.S. rhetoric."
"After all these years, 47 years, and [Reagan advisor] Bud McFarlane's birthday cakes and bibles, here we are, and we're left with Ahmadinejad. That's where America and Israel have landed for the moderate who is going to deliver them from this crisis. Yeah. And then they try to bomb the prison to get him out and almost kill him, the host sneered, before the punchline that"
A report alleged that the United States and Israel consulted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about taking over Iran’s regime. A failed strike on his home in Tehran during the first day of war in February was intended to kill guards holding him prisoner, but left him injured and under house arrest. John Kirby said the allegations show regime change was a key motivation for the conflict. The U.S. approach was compared to efforts to replace Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. Joe Scarborough mocked the idea that Ahmadinejad could be a moderate option, citing decades of U.S. dealings with Iran and Ahmadinejad’s threats against Israel and anti-U.S. rhetoric during his presidency from 2005 to 2013.
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