Edited sentence: According to Seymour Hersh:.Seymour Hersh brought widespread attention to claims of covert operations in Iran when he reported in an April 2006 New Yorker article that US troops in Iran were recruiting local ethnic populations, including the Azeris, to encourage local tensions that could undermine the regime.The symbol is also used by the Grey Wolves of Turkey and Azerbaijan Republic, and may hint at possible foreign interference, as there were suspicions in Iran that pan-Turks were involved in inciting the some of the protests.Video and pictures did show some protestors who were exhibiting the terrorist  pan Turkic Grey Wolves symbol