Mr. Ahmadinejad was injured on the war’s first day by an Israeli strike  
at his home in Tehran that had been designed to free him from house  
arrest, the American officials and an associate of Mr. Ahmadinejad said.  
He survived the strike, they said, but after the near miss he became  
disillusioned with the regime change plan.  

I wonder if escape was always the plan, he just happened to get injured in the process. I feel like if my team options were “America and Israel” and “nobody”, “nobody” looks pretty attractive.