Donald Trump has publicly urged unrest inside Iran while pairing that encouragement with threats of force - red lines very much crossed. Right, so Donald Trump has publicly urged Iranians to escalate unrest while pairing that encouragement with threats of force, and Israel’s Mossad has used intelligence-linked channels to address Iranians directly in Farsi, urging mobilisation, and that combination has just removed a shortcut a lot of people rely on when they talk about “outside concern” versus interference. The assumption that powerful states are merely commenting, merely watching, merely reacting, no longer holds, because the President of the United States and Israel’s foreign intelligence service have stepped into another country’s internal crisis in public and done so without even pretending otherwise. That breaks the comfort that whatever ha ...