It doesn't help that they nearly blew up the favored successor. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/politics/iran-israel-us-leader-ahmadinejad.html https://w

It doesn't help that they nearly blew up the favored successor. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/politics/iran-israel-us-leader-ahmadinejad.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/politics/iran-israel-u... > Mr. Ahmadinejad was injured on the war’s first day by an Israeli strike at his home in Tehran that had been designed to free him from house arrest, the American officials and an associate of Mr. Ahmadinejad said. He survived the strike, they said, but after the near miss he became disillusioned with the regime change plan.