Israel may be doing violent covert things to Iran to try to get Iran to retaliate overtly in order to justify an overt Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities. In spite of a series of provocations, some relatively major, Iran is not retaliating and one theory is that they aren't retaliating in order not to give Israel that provocation. It is all very Spy vs. Spy.
Then again, much of what appears to be Israeli covert action may be Iranian ineptitude. That is, a third world nation trying to accomplish first world technology with inadequate resources and corrupt people.
