Israel has admitted Mossad operations inside Iran during the unrest, and that single statement has blown a hole clean through the protest coverage. Right, so Israel has openly said its intelligence services are operating inside Iran during all the unrest there, during the rioting and the protests and the remarkable thing isn’t so much the admission – Israel are rather arrogant about such things - it’s how fast everyone pretending to explain what the rioting is about in Iran suddenly go rather quiet about this. Because once a foreign state says it’s active on the ground, the old story about Western boogeymen getting their comeuppance only works if you actively look away from half the story here. And that’s exactly what’s been happening. First come the rumours, the symbols next, the mooting of imminent change, unpopular leaders on the run and then a media class carefully stepping around the one fact that ruins the whole performance. Israel is involved. So this isn’t about whether protests are real, they are, but to what extent are they truly and honestly being reported to us? Right, so Israel has now publicly stated that its intelligence services are operating inside Iran during the current unrest. That isn’t an allegation, a leak, or a hostile claim. A serving Israeli minister, one of Itamar Ben Gvir’s hard right bunch, Amichai Eliyahu, has said it openly, on the record, during this period of protests and economic instability. And if you’ve been following this story, then from this moment on, the story changes, not because Iran suddenly becomes something else, but because the frame that has been used to describe these events there all of a sudden gets exposed for omitting something it really shouldn’t have done.