by Ariel Kahana
Iranian internet users hail Israel: "We wish them death, they bless us with life."
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Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu offers to share Israeli
water technology with
Iranians
Photo: GPO
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's video offering to share Israeli water technology with the Iranians
racked up 5 million views in the first five days it was online, 1.6
million of which were on Netanyahu's own social media channels.
Perhaps more significantly, nearly 100,000
Iranians joined the Israeli government's Farsi-language Telegram account
within 24 hours of the video going live.
All in all, this was the second-most
watched Netanyahu video, after a presentation in April in which
Netanyahu unveiled an Iranian nuclear archive smuggled out of Iran by
Israeli agents.
In the video, posted a week ago, Netanyahu
addresses the Iranian people directly, offering to teach Iran how to
manage its water resources.
In the video, Netanyahu pours himself a
glass of water and says, "I want to help save countless Iranian lives.
Here's how: Iran's meteorological organization says that nearly 96% of
Iran suffers from some levels of drought."
"Israel has the know-how to prevent
environmental catastrophe in Iran. I want to share this information with
the people of Iran. Sadly, Iran bans Israelis from visiting," Netanyahu
says in the video.
Netanyahu also said that Israel would be setting up a Farsi website that would teach the Iranian people how to recycle water.
The video received wide media coverage in
Iran, including on the state news agency IRNA and the website of Radio
Farda (the most popular station in the country) and Radio Zaman.
However, news agencies affiliated with the
Iranian regime were, unsurprisingly, critical of Netanyahu's video. The
ISNA agency claimed that "while the residents of Gaza are suffering
because the Zionist regime took away their water, the leader of the
Zionist regime announces that he wants to help the Iranians overcome the
drought."
The coverage of the video was so widespread
that even the regime itself was forced to discuss it. Iranian Energy
Minister Reza Ardakanian told reporters on Wednesday that Iran was not
in need of any external help to solve its water crisis, adding that "the
prime minister of this regime [Israel] or anyone else who claims to
have the ability to manage water resources is aware that Iran is a
country that has a proven record going back thousands of years in the
field."
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Barham
Qassemi attacked Netanyahu, saying that Tehran had no need for a
"trickster" to solve its water shortage problem.
While the Tehran regime rejected Israel's
offer, Iranian Internet users welcomed the idea and leveled criticism at
their own government.
One user commented, "We wish them [Israelis] death and they bless us with life. I am ashamed to be Iranian."
Another posted: "God will bless Israel and Netanyahu. I'm sure that Iran and Israel will once again be allies."
Ariel Kahana
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/2018/06/18/netanyahus-water-tech-offer-draws-wave-of-iranian-support/
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