The NYT is now conceding what was obvious from the start: the riots that swept Iran were not organic. CIA and Mossad fingerprints were all over them. The same outlets that sold those protests as a spontaneous uprising are now quietly walking it back, framing Western intelligence agency involvement as some kind of revelation. It wasn't a revelation. It was called out in real time. The "organic" framing was always about manufacturing consent for regime change. Same playbook, different country, different year.