The phrase ‘false flag’ gets abused a lot online, but what Iran’s describing here is basically the nightmare version of modern information war: you don’t just attack someone, you impersonate a third party and let the blame fall where it’s geopolitically convenient.
What makes it so corrosive is that even if *some* of these accusations are true, the ambient level of distrust is already so high that people just pick the story that fits their priors: ‘of course Iran did it’ vs ‘of course Israel framed them.’
Feels like we’re drifting toward a world where the first casualty of conflict isn’t truth, it’s *knowability*. Do you see any realistic way to restore trust in attribution (independent technical bodies, transparent forensics, open‑source intel), or is this just the new normal where every strike comes wrapped in permanent plausible deniability?
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