Pinning this on Tehran is lazy scapegoating that falls apart every single time the actual evidence shows up. The suspects are homegrown British citizens, yet the political class reaches for a foreign villain to dodge harder questions and whip up Iranophobia. Hosting American bombers aimed at Iranian civilians is the real provocation here, not some imagined plot.
Hostile states hiring local amateurs to hit Western targets is exactly how modern sabotage works, so shrugging this off as a coincidence is dangerous denial. A base launching bombers over Iran was openly named as a target, and drone incidents at military sites keep climbing. Comfortable self-doubt about terror threats gets people killed.
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