After killing the Ayatollah and other top officials in the early days of the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran, President Trump openly mused about “someone from within” taking over the country. A fantastical report from the New York Times details an Israeli plot to install that “someone” – none other than Iran’s virulent anti-U.S., anti-Israel, former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “It’s a degree of incompetence that should be really, really alarming to people,” says Ben Rhodes, the former Deputy National Security Adviser under President Obama.