{
  "id": 3876148,
  "title": "Israel's dashed ambitions to topple the Iranian regime",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/israels-dashed-ambitions-to-topple-the-iranian-regime",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-28T02:30:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Le Monde English",
    "slug": "le-monde-english",
    "url": "https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/08/28/israel-s-dashed-ambitions-to-topple-the-iranian-regime_6756924_4.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Israeli government thought it could take advantage of the war launched with the US on February 28 to bring down the Islamic Republic. But the Mossad intelligence agency's plans to enlist the help of Kurdish opposition groups and former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad failed.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}