The government claim that was used to shape a national security decision still hasn't presented the proof for it. Why are we still waiting? Right, so they said Palestine Action was an Iranian front. They said it with a straight face. They said it in Parliament. They said it in the papers. Nobody showed any evidence, but the statement moved anyway, because that’s how these things work when the right people want them to. Then Private Eye reported that the Iran line may not have come from intelligence at all, but from a PR shop working for Elbit Systems UK, the weapons manufacturer that Palestine Action were of course actually targeting. CMS Strategic, named in that report, denied it outright. Categorically untrue. End of statement. And yet the timing sits there, with all the subtlety of a brick: a protest group hammering at an arms company, a story ...