Israeli plan to topple the regime in Iran.. What happened?

Israeli media revealed new details about a secret plan that did not succeed, prepared by the Israeli intelligence agency (Mossad) earlier this year to topple the Iranian regime, and it was codenamed "Puss in Boots."

According to a report by Israel's Channel 13, the plan stipulated that Israel would carry out military strikes targeting sites belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard on Iran's border with Iraq, in the Iranian Kurdistan region.

These strikes aimed to open the way for Kurdish fighters to cross the border into Iran and advance towards Kurdish cities in the northwest of the country.

The Mossad expected that thousands of Kurdish youths would join these fighters, turning the movement into a widespread uprising that could extend to Tehran.

According to the report, it was believed that the arrival of this movement in Tehran would ignite mass protests involving millions of demonstrators, ultimately leading to the overthrow of the Iranian regime.

At the beginning of the war, Israel and the United States carried out intensive strikes targeting Iranian security forces, including regime officials, military bases, missile systems, police centers, and sites belonging to the "Basij" forces in northwestern Iran, in an attempt to facilitate the advance of Kurdish fighters.

However, the leaking of the plan's details to the media, along with pressure from Turkey and the hesitation of the Kurds themselves to proceed with it, ultimately pushed the United States to abandon its implementation, according to the report.

The report indicated that the Kurdish attack was one of the main elements of the plan, which also included the return of former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to take power in the country.

The New York Times reported on Monday that Israel had worked for years to "recruit" Ahmadinejad to its side and bring him back to the political scene.

The Israeli plan included a meeting between him and the then-Mossad chief David Barnea on the sidelines of an academic conference in Hungary.

The American newspaper indicated that Israel made secret payments to Ali Akbar Javanfekr, Ahmadinejad's spokesman, and that Israeli agents met him several times before launching an operation called "The Mighty Lion."

The report added that Ahmadinejad's residential complex was subjected to an Israeli airstrike last February that targeted his guards and armored vehicle, before Mossad agents transferred him to a secret hideout.

Ahmadinejad remained out of sight until he later appeared at the funeral of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei days ago.

The New York Times adds that "after that, the intelligence wing of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard detained the former president and placed him under house arrest," according to Iranian officials who spoke to it.