Iran Finds 'US-Israeli Spy Network,' Shocking Exactly No One
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps announced the bust of a 'US-Israeli spy network,' a familiar refrain that usually garners a collective shrug from Western media. While the headline suggests a novel development, the US and Israel engaging in intelligence activities against Iran is hardly groundbreaking news. This practice has been openly acknowledged for decades, part of a covert war spanning from
cyberattacks—like the Stuxnet worm on Iranian nuclear facilities, first exposed by the New York Times in 2012 —to numerous reported assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists, often attributed to Israeli intelligence . We are consistently told Iran is the primary aggressor, yet any defense or counter-intelligence by Tehran is framed as nefarious. One might wonder if the 'spy network' revelations
are less about Iranian paranoia and more about an ongoing, undeclared war where the US and Israel have a documented history of offensive actions. The real 'news' isn't that states spy on each other, but the selective outrage when the target of that espionage happens to catch a few agents.