Shaun King – North Star Jan 14, 2026

What’s happening in Iran right now is being narrated to Americans through a familiar script: “the people” vs. “the regime,” with the West cast as a concerned observer.

This is all a lie.

Israeli sources — and even a public-facing Mossad account from their own intelligence agencies — are saying something radically different. They’re describing foreign involvement, information war, and even Israeli agents “in the field.”

I will show this to you.

And that’s exactly why this is so dangerous: when people in the United States raise the possibility of Israeli involvement in destabilizing Iran, they are often smeared as bigots, conspiracy theorists, or “antisemitic.” Meanwhile, in Israel and Israeli press, versions of this are being said out loud. They openly admit to the thing we are called bigots for saying.

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Now let’s get to what Israel and Israeli-linked voices are saying.

The receipts

Here are the direct claims and statements, in plain English, with dates:

• December 29th, 2025 — Mossad’s Persian-language spokesperson account posted (via X’s on-screen translation):
  “Let’s come out to the streets together. The time has come. We are with you. Not just from afar and verbally. We are with you in the field as well.” Here is the link as well.

January 2nd, 2026 — Former CIA Director Mike Pompeo posted:
“Happy New Year to every Iranian in the streets. Also to every Mossad agent walking beside them…”

 

The Jerusalem Post ran a headline and summary stating:
“Mossad spurs Iran protests, says agents with demonstrators in Farsi message.”
And the visible excerpt beneath it says the Mossad posted an unusual Farsi message urging demonstrators to act, “saying it is with them in the streets.”

• Then YESTERDAY, January 13th, 2026 — Tamir Morag of Israel’s Channel 14 posted:
  “We reported tonight on Channel 14: foreign actors are arming the protesters in Iran with live firearms, which is the reason for the hundreds of regime personnel killed.”
  Then he added: “Everyone is free to guess who is behind it.”

And then there’s this: a screenshot circulating of a past statement attributed to Barak Ravid (a former IDF intelligence officer who now writes for Axios) saying:
“And the Mossad is using this media outlet quite regularly for its information war.”

That’s a lot of smoke.

And this is the part Americans are being trained not to say: smoke like this is usually covering fire.

Two possibilities, both damning

Either one of these is true:

1) These claims are literal — Mossad is present and active. This is what every expert I know believes.
If “we are with you in the field” means what it sounds like, that is not commentary. That is not sympathy. That is not analysis. That is foreign intelligence involvement in another nation’s political unrest — the kind of interference the United States would call an act of aggression if it were done to Americans.

Or:

2) These claims are psychological warfare — and that’s the point.
If “we are with you in the field” is not literal, it is still an official or semi-official attempt to inflame, encourage, and shape events inside Iran — to fuel uncertainty, panic, escalation, and bloodshed.

Either way, it is profoundly dangerous. Either way, it’s the kind of behavior that turns a protest movement into a battlefield.

And if Channel 14 is claiming “foreign actors are arming protesters with live firearms,” that is not a small accusation. That is a war-level allegation.

This is what “information war” actually looks like

One simple definition — because the world is drowning in euphemisms:

An “information war” is when a government uses media, messaging, leaks, covert outlets, and psychological operations to destabilize an enemy and shape what the public believes is happening.

So when someone says “Mossad is using this media outlet quite regularly for its information war,” that’s not a cute phrase. It’s an allegation that a media channel is functioning as a weapon — an instrument of destabilization, not information.

And when it’s paired with statements like “we are with you in the field” and “Mossad agent walking beside them,” the picture being painted is not subtle.

Why this matters right now, in this moment

For over two years, Gaza has shown the world that international law is treated like theater when powerful nations decide it is.

And now the same era is expanding: Venezuela. Greenland. Cuba. Iran. Everywhere the empire points, the rules seem to dissolve.

A basic principle of international law — reflected in the U.N. Charter’s framework — is sovereignty: nations are not supposed to be subjected to coercion, conquest, or armed interference by outside states.

So if any foreign intelligence service is encouraging unrest, arming factions, or operating “in the field,” that isn’t “supporting freedom.” That’s intervention.

And it tends to end the same way, every time:

• more deaths
• more chaos
• more pretext for crackdowns
• more propaganda
• more suffering for ordinary people who just want to live

The part that makes me furious

The most enraging thing is the double standard Americans are forced to live under.

If Iran were posting in English, “Come to the streets together… we are with you in the field as well” about protests in the United States — if a senior Iranian official wrote, “Happy New Year to every American in the streets, and also to every Iranian agent walking beside them…” — the American media would call it a declaration of hostile interference within minutes.

Congress would hold hearings.
Cable news would run it on a loop.
Sanctions would fly.
And the language “state-sponsored subversion” would be everywhere.

But when it is Israel, the public is trained to treat even asking the question as taboo.

That taboo is not protecting Jewish people.
It is protecting a state — and its ability to operate with impunity.

And family, that is not acceptable.

A line that must be drawn

Iran’s people have the right to protest. They have the right to demand change. They have the right to live without fear.

But foreign intelligence services do not have the right to turn other nations into chessboards.

Not in Iran.
Not in Venezuela.
Not in Greenland.
Not anywhere.

And Americans have the right to discuss these admissions — especially when the admissions are being made in Israeli outlets and by Israeli-linked voices — without being bullied into silence.

Because silence is how impunity survives.

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