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In 1982, Yaakov Nimrodi told BBC in a radio interview that along with Adolph Schwimmer and Adnan Khashoggi, he was involved with Reza Pahlavi and Gen. Said Razvani to scheme a coup d’état and install him in Iran.[16] According to Samuel Segev, the plan had the approval of both the CIA and the Israeli cabinet but it was abandoned when Menachem Begin resigned in 1983 and the new leadership “thought Israel should be involved in a new adventure”.