Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s office on July 14 denied a New York Times report that he
was under house arrest and had contact with Israeli intelligence, calling the
story false and “Hollywood-style fiction”. The NYT said on July 13 that Israeli
intelligence had contacted Ahmadinejad and moved him to a “safe location” after
an initial US-Israel strike on Tehran, and that he later left that site and was
placed under house arrest by Iranian authorities. US, Israeli and Iranian
officials have not publicly confirmed the NYT account. Ahmadinejad served as
Iran’s president from 2005 to 2013.
