Israel has started preparing bomb shelters. So confrontation with Iran seems to be unavoidable, because clearly they've accepted escalation as the price. Right, so Israel has started preparing bomb shelters, and even more embassies are quietly pulling people out, and you’re being told next to nothing about this, because our media are frothing at the mouth at the thought of Iran’s Ayatollah’s falling from power. State’s don’t get civilians ready for incoming fire unless they think incoming fire is on the table. You don’t do that as a precaution. You do it because you’ve already accepted that escalation is plausible enough to hurt your own people and you’re managing the consequences already rather than stopping them. People are entitled to ask why and when the media don’t answer, that’s omission by choice. And once you’re at that point, a lot of th ...