Trump admitted to a plan to give arms to opposition groups in Iran during the protests. If the US was actively trying to arm them, it's reasonable to assume that CIA/mossad also stoked the anti-regime dissent to the greatest extent possible.

The CIA was also disseminating misinformation to the Iranians to misdirect their efforts to capture the downed WSO. If they were able to disseminate this info among the Iranians during the war, who knows what they were up to during the protests and in the months leading up to the war.

Obviously there was a group they wanted to give the guns to, and the plan failed. I could see promises to be given weapons incentivizing the opposition to resist. Not unreasonable to think that the CIA/mossad were monitoring and most likely meddling in the situation on the ground.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insig...11&uxmode=ruby

https://www.timesofisrael.com/im-ver...were-diverted/