Ex-Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said to be under house arrest over reported Israeli contacts

Samuel Chamberlain / NEW YORK POST

 

Former Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been placed under house arrest by the country’s notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps following a failed Israeli plot to install him in place of the current theocratic regime, according to a stunning new report.

 

The New York Times, citing four Iranian officials, reported Monday that the 69-year-old is being held by the IRGC’s intelligence wing after he left a safe house run by Israel’s Mossad.

 

Before last week, Ahmadinejad had not been seen in public since an Israeli airstrike hit his compound in the early hours of Operation Epic Fury Feb. 28, after which he was spirited away to the safe house, the Times reported, citing US and Iranian officials. 

The former president, who ran Iran with an iron fist from 2005 to 2013, re-emerged last week –apparently flanked by security guards — during funeral ceremonies for the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was ki led on the same day as the strike on Ahmadinejad’s compound. See photos here.