Small pumps and truck engines are used to extract crude from the ground in parts of the country, which has tens of thousands of community-run oil wells.
The yearslong effort to groom the former Iranian president as an intelligence asset culminated in a dramatic effort to take him to a Mossad safe house in Iran in the early days of the war. But the plan fell apart.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s former leader, was known for accelerating Iran’s nuclear program and his anti-Israel views.