The attackers came from the internal opposition, and so far as I know they had no ties to any foreign anything, not a foreign intelligence service, not a foreign military organization, not a foreign government.
He figures that the Stuxnet virus was foreign origin. And some of the nuclear scientists could well have been victims of the Iranian regime that doubted their loyalty. Speculation that we are at war might just be taking dots placed by a variety of actors (including true accidents) in an uncoordinated fashion and connecting them into a single coherent plan.
Ledeen's theory is certainly a plausible theory. It explains what seems to be the amazing notion (to me, anyway) that we are willing to go toe-to-toe with the Iranians like this (we aren't). And it gets around the question of whether we truly have a spy network inside Iran capable of doing this (we don't).
And it would make sense that peaceful dissenters would eventually turn to violent opposition to the mullah regime. We are seeing that progression taking place in Syria. Heck, we saw that in our own Revolution as protests demanding our rights as Englishmen became a declaration of independence from Britain.
I'd certainly like this to be true.
