China’s reported move to help Iran lock down its systems isn’t “spy drama” — it’s Israel’s inside-access playbook being priced out. Right, so China has decided it is not watching Israel’s intelligence footprint inside Iran like it’s a regional soap opera anymore, and the immediate consequence of that is very simple: the “inside access” part of Israel’s Iran playbook – ie Mossad - is now being treated as something that can be denied, choked, and priced up, and when that happens the people in Israel who have been selling “we’re always going to be there” start sounding like they’ve just been told the key in the door doesn’t work anymore. Benjamin Netanyahu can posture all he likes, he does love to pose, but if the door stops opening, all he can do is stand outside threatening to huff and puff. Mossad is of course Israel’s foreign intelligence servic ...