India, May 20 -- New international reports suggest that US and Israeli officials quietly explored a highly unusual scenario for Iran's political future during the early phase of West Asia conflict escalation.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was injured in an Israeli strike on his home that was launched to free him from house arrest, according to reports

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has declared that attempts to force Tehran into surrender through military pressure and coercion would fail, as tensions between Iran and the U

US officials told the NYT that an Israeli Air Force strike on Ahmadinejad's home in Tehran on the first day of the war was meant to kill the guards watching over him.

Iran is set to vote on a $58 million assassination bounty targeting President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as retaliation for the drone strike that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

US President Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have held a tense phone call about the pathway for Iran negotiations in a conversation that one US source said left the Israeli Prime Minister’s “hair on fire”.

An Israeli strike designed to free Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from house arrest in Tehran, U.S. officials said, was part of an effort to bring about regime change and put him in power.

Iran’s president admitted Monday that the Islamic republic has “suffered harm” from the joint US-Israeli attacks as he urged officials to “face reality” of the war — but vowed that his country would not surrender.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly backed down from threats of overwhelming strikes on Iran, but no peace deal has been signed.

Iran: President Trump said on social media that Tehran’s official response to the latest American proposal in the negotiations to end the war was TO