Update XII from The Iranist
May 22, 2026
Salam reader,
“Guess who’s back, back again?” Well, not quite. He’s back in the news: former hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He was reportedly “someone from within” whom the Israelis had in mind to take over in Tehran (New York Times). I first came across a variation of this wild story in The Atlantic at the start of the Iran war. Ahmadinejad was…