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  ...