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May 19 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
NEW: The regime change plan at the beginning of the Iran War called for installing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's former hard line president known for accelerating the nuclear program and denying the Holocaust, as the country's new. leader.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/…
An Israeli strike at the beginning of the war was meant to spring Ahmadinejad from house arrest. Instead, he was injured in the strike and became disillusioned with the regime change plan.
For all you kids out there, Ahmadinejad was somebody once:

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Apr 2, 2023
NEW: Days after the White House in 2021 blacklisted NSO, the notorious Israeli hacking firm, a secret contract was signed for a hacking tool. The contract states that the USG is the user. A thread nytimes.com/2023/04/02/us/…
To mask the US role in the purchase, the contractor purchasing the hacking tool used a fake name, “Cleopatra Holdings.” Despite this, we found out that Cleopatra is a small New Jersey firm called Riva Networks. It is unclear which U.S. agency is using the covert tool. 2/5
In 2019, the FBI used the same arrangement to purchase Pegasus, the NSO spyware that invades mobile phones and extracts their contents. The FBI would not comment on why it used “Cleopatra Holdings” to purchase Pegasus. 3/5
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Jan 28, 2022
NEW: A deep investigation into NSO, the notorious hacking firm, w/@ronenbergman for @NYTmag. Short thread on some revelations 1/ nytimes.com/2022/01/28/mag…
The United States blacklisted NSO in November after countless stories of Pegasus being used against dissidents, journalists etc. What you didn't know was that, beginning in 2019, the FBI paid millions to NSO as the bureau considered deploying Pegasus in the U.S.
In 2018, the C.I.A. bought Pegasus for the government of Djibouti, a country that has an established record of human rights abuses.
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Nov 12, 2021
Seems some people haven’t been following the work @adamgoldmanNYT and I have done about spying, Project Veritas, and political sabotage. I’ll catch you up. This was the first: nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/…
This one was about a proposed operation to discredit the national security adviser. The story also revealed that Project Veritas was secretly using dating apps to sting employees at FBI, State Department and other agencies. nytimes.com/2021/05/13/us/…
Here’s one about a privately funding spying effort to dig up dirt on both Democrats and Republicans believed to be insufficiently loyal to Trump. It was carried out largely by ex-Project Veritas operatives.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/us/…
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