Israel 'Not to Comment' on Iran, After Decades of Covert Ops
Israel, a nation known for its vocal opinions on regional adversaries, has reportedly gone quiet on the current Iranian protests. This sudden media discipline isn't about fostering democracy; it's classic plausible deniability. Throughout the 2000s and 2010s, Mossad and the CIA were heavily implicated in supporting various opposition groups and even engaging in sabotage within Iran, (see Seymour
Hersh's 2009 New Yorker piece 'Preparing the Battlefield' or Ronen Bergman's 2018 'Rise and Kill First'). While Western media applauds 'spontaneous' uprisings, one might wonder if the 'instructions not to comment' are less about restraint and more about not drawing attention to fingerprints already on the wall. After all, why comment when the operation is running smoothly? It's almost as if
orchestrating regime change operations and then publicly cheering from the sidelines tends to delegitimize the very movements one claims to support. The silence isn't a sign of peace or non-interference; it's the quiet before the storm, a strategic pause from a state that has consistently advocated for military action and destabilization in Iran.