> the popular uprisings

isn't it obvious that the "popular uprisings" were part of a scheme to overthrow the government to install some US-friendly puppet (or better: Israel-friendly, since that's the only thing that counts), and that the supposedly slaughtered protesters are exactly the reason that is normally put forward to justify an attack on an enemy country?

Israeli newspaper quoting NYT article with sources within Israel intelligence confirms this:

> The Times reported that Barnea’s predecessor, Yossi Cohen, viewed regime change in Iran as unlikely and deemphasized the Mossad’s work on that project, instead working on ways to weaken the regime through sanctions and targeted assassinations of nuclear scientists.

> But Barnea has adopted the opposite approach, directing the agency’s energies toward regime change over the past year

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-said-frustrated-that...