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Last update - 21:39 17/07/2009
Iran: Israel plotted to assassinate Ahmadinejad
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 

Israel conspired with Iranian opposition figures in a plot to assassinate President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during last month's election campaign, Iran's intelligence minister said on Friday.

According to AFP, Intelligence Minister Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie told state media in Iran that Israeli officials had met members of the People's Mujahedeen of Iran, an exiled opposition group, twice to plan Ahmadinejad's assassination.

"The Zionist regime had met with the [PMOI] on the sidelines of [a meeting in[ Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt and in Paris to assassinate Mr. Ahmadinejad," Ejeie said.
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The intelligence minister said the group agreed to cooperate on condition that it be removed from a U.S. "terror black list," according to AFP.

"The enemies even approached the rebels in east of the country to achieve this aim," said Ejeie, who was referring to armed Sunni dissidents.

Last year, former Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff and current minister for strategic affairs, Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon, was quoted as saying by an Australian newspaper that the West must consider all options necessary to stop Tehran's nuclear program, including assassinating Ahmadinejad.

An associate of Ya'alon said, however, that the fomer IDF chief's comments on the necessity of considering assassination were taken out of context.

The associate noted in a statement that Ya'alon confirms he said it is possible to defeat the Iranian regime through economic, political, diplomatic means, and that military means are to be used as a last resort.
In an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, Ya'alon said: "We have to confront the Iranian revolution immediately. There is no way to stabilize the Middle East today without defeating the Iranian regime. The Iranian nuclear program must be stopped."

When asked whether "all options" included a military deposition of Ahmadinejad and the rest of Iran's current leadership, Ya'alon told The Herald: "We have to consider killing him. All options must be considered."
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  1.   What bull! 21:56  |  Rory 17/07/09
  2.   How low can they fall....... 22:08  |  JO 17/07/09
  3.   ISRAEL/IRAN 22:23  |  The Teacher/nstruct 17/07/09
  4.   Absolutely impossible! 22:27  |  marat 17/07/09
  5.   Honestly, he`s not even worth the bullet 22:43  |  Jacob Blues 17/07/09
  6.   absurd 22:44  |  yossi 17/07/09
  7.   Conveniently timed 23:03  |  Mark Lincoln 17/07/09
  8.   Israel Policy 23:54  |  antoine Doinel 17/07/09
  9.   Iranian losing their nerves 00:20  |  arik 18/07/09
  10.   Oh, so that`s why they need the atomic bomb! 00:38  |  IW 18/07/09
  11.   Unlikely 00:41  |  RR 18/07/09
  12.   If true, he`d have been long dead 00:57  |  IW 18/07/09
  13.   Israel/Mossad reputation. 01:02  |  Maureen Ann 18/07/09
  14.   My cynical observation 01:28  |  Mark Lincoln 18/07/09
  15.   Rain in Teheran-Israel plot 01:52  |  Prof. David 18/07/09
  16.   Don`t be discouraged - Try again 02:09  |  Ibn Musa 18/07/09
  17.   Really !!!! 02:23  |  Roscoe 18/07/09
  18.   Sad 02:31  |  Mark 18/07/09
  19.   Why talk so much ? 03:16  |  Daniel 18/07/09
  20.   Only If True 03:23  |  Persian Kitty 18/07/09
  21.   Assassination 03:40  |  Arnold 18/07/09
  22.   Ahmaniidiot from Iran 04:06  |  Michelle 18/07/09
  23.   As if anyone would bother with this lowly worm! 04:08  |  Man on the street 18/07/09
  24.   Israel: Iran conspired FART Bombs in Gaza tunnels. 04:57  |  Doghouse 18/07/09
  25.   Desperate move of a desperate man 05:22  |  Marcel 18/07/09
  26.   Israel knows what is good for it.... 05:28  |  World Observer 18/07/09
  27.   They tried to wipe Ahmadinejad off the map? 05:46  |  Abby 18/07/09
  28.   DO IT! 05:46  |  Elan 18/07/09
  29.   #7 Mark Lincoln I AGREE 06:22  |  Ibn Musa 18/07/09
  30.   Survival and sweatin` the small stuff 07:09  |  allang 18/07/09
  31.   and there are no gays in Iran too 07:39  |  Dan 18/07/09
  32.   If Ahmadinjejad didn`t exist, israeli rightist would invent him! 08:03  |  Voice of Reason 18/07/09
  33.   He`s afraid. Of course, not of Israel, but of his own Iranians... 08:28  |  S 18/07/09
  34.   @ # 10 ( re.# 3 addendum) 08:57  |  The Teacher/Instruct 18/07/09
  35.   Cheap propaganda. 11:09  |  Stephen. 18/07/09
  36.   Nothing new.Ahmadi was asked about it during presidental debates. 11:26  |  Anoosh 18/07/09
  37.   #9 Mark. Then you don`t know Iranians. 11:37  |  Ferya 18/07/09
  38.   Cheap attempt to distract public`s attention 12:23  |  US CITIZEN 18/07/09
  39.   #27 Cheap dumb trick and ignored. 16:02  |  Farhad 18/07/09
  40.   #21 Voice of Reason - Look to Iran 16:49  |  Ibn Musa 18/07/09
  41.   Iran, clerics, all nonsense 18:18  |  charro 18/07/09
  42.   #7 Mark Lincoln....tell me, would you really feel badly? 19:57  |  Lynn 18/07/09
  43.   Assassination of Ahmadinehaj 19:58  |  Jon 18/07/09
  44.   #9 Mark...I don`t think so 20:02  |  Lynn 18/07/09
  45.   Ibn Musa,#29, maybe bad for Iran but a asset for israeli right 20:03  |  Voice of Reason 18/07/09
  46.   If the Iranian people pull this off 20:08  |  Lynn 18/07/09
  47.   It wouldn`t bother me Lynn 22:01  |  Mark Lincoln 18/07/09
  48.   It seems few actually know about Iran Ferya 22:07  |  Mark Lincoln 18/07/09
  49.   #33 Voice of Reason 23:55  |  Ibn Musa 18/07/09
  50.   Lynn 00:19  |  Persian Kitty 19/07/09
  51.   Assasination 01:41  |  Yvonne 19/07/09
  52.   #34 Lynn, Israel is not assasinating anyone, get over it. 03:05  |  Jam 19/07/09
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