Netanyahu's video message calling for street protests in iran failed badly

Defence affairs - Def-Geopolitics

Two senior Iranian officials said on Thursday that the Israeli prime minister’s attempt to spark protests in Iran fell flat over what they called popular support for the Islamic Republic, two days after Netanyahu urged Iranians to take to the streets.

“God has created our enemies foolish; these threadbare, repetitive and childish tricks no longer work,” Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in reaction to a video message by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier in the week calling on Iranians to launch antigovernment protests.

Araghchi added that the people of Iran firmly stand behind the Islamic Republic.

Netanyahu, in a video message on Tuesday urged the people of Iran "to be bold and brave, take risk for freedom, take to the streets, demand justice and protest tyranny". "Soon your country will be free. Now is the time for action," he said.

Netanyahu also promised that following a regime change in Iran, Israel would send top water experts to help with the country's ongoing water crisis.

Araghchi downplayed the remarks, saying "our own specialists know the methods of water regeneration and new ways of securing water… the problem has no miraculous solution and cannot be resolved overnight."

A day earlier, Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian mocked Netanyahu over his offer to solve the ongoing crisis.

“A regime that deprives Gaza of water and food now says it will bring water to Iran? A MIRAGE, NOTHING MORE,” Pezeshkian wrote on X.