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Netanyahu: “Apparently I have a higher opinion of the Iranian people than their leaders”

Oct 19, 2017 7:18 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday called on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to shut down his Twitter account for using the social media platform – which the Islamic regime has banned for its own citizens – to claim that all Iranians support the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Iran has long tried to push its nationals to further its jihadist ambitions against Israel and the West. It is no secret that Iran has been manipulating its citizens for years, pushing them to become a fifth column in the West. For example, in Canada:

Detailed personal and job information of Iranians and Muslim immigrants, and the level of their political and economic influence in the host country, is collected over time and then confidentially recorded in computer software. The most influential ones are then hand-picked to infiltrate and influence the Canadian government’s image of the Islamic regime, thereby affecting the political decision-making process and affecting policies.

Trump said in a speech last week, referencing Iran’s ruthlessness and global threat:

History has shown that the longer we ignore a threat, the more dangerous that threat becomes. For this reason, upon taking office, I’ve ordered a complete strategic review of our policy toward the rogue regime in Iran….Given the regime’s murderous past and present, we should not take lightly its sinister vision for the future. The regime’s two favorite chants are “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.”

Meanwhile…

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif also threatened that ” no one would “trust any U.S. administration to engage in any long-term negotiation” if President Donald Trump ends the Iran nuclear deal.

The Iranian regime is a master propaganda machine. No one knows it better than the Iranian populace, whether they are for or against the regime:

Zarif’s tweet, which was retweeted almost 1,000 times, garnered thousands of responses, many of them from Iranians who reject the foreign minister’s claim.

“WATCH: Netanyahu Calls On Iranian Foreign Minister To Delete Twitter Account After Controversial Tweet”, by Deborah Danan, Breitbart, October 17, 2017:

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday called on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to shut down his Twitter account for using the social media platform – which the Islamic regime has banned for its own citizens – to claim that all Iranians support the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

In a video message, Netanyahu slammed Zarif for his Saturday tweet reading: “Today, Iranians –boys, girls, men, women — are ALL IRGC; standing firm with those who defend us & the region against aggression & terror.” On Friday, President Donald Trump said he would decertify the Iranian nuclear deal and employ “tough sanctions” on the IRGC, calling it a “terror force.”

“I hope you’re sitting down, because this one’s a whopper,” Netanyahu said in his video before citing Zarif’s tweet.

“I’d love to know what the Iranian people think of that tweet,” Netanyahu said. “Sadly, the regime bans them from using Twitter. Ironic, don’t you think?”

“Apparently I have a higher opinion of the Iranian people than their leaders. See, I’m sure that ordinary Iranians aren’t proud when the Revolutionary Guard murders innocent men and women around the globe. I’m sure that ordinary Iranian mothers and fathers wouldn’t have blown up a Jewish community center in Argentina filled with little children. Because that’s what the the Revolutionary Guard did,” he said in reference to the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires that claimed the lives of 85 people.

“I am sure that ordinary Iranians want to live in peace and don’t want their government to shoot students in the streets, hang gays from cranes, torture journalists in prison,” Netanyahu said.

“One day the Iranian people will be free. Free to tweet, free to express how they felt when their dictators compared them to the Iranian version of ISIS. So I have a simple message for Iran’s foreign minister: Delete. Your. Account.”

Zarif’s tweet, which was retweeted almost 1,000 times, garnered thousands of responses, many of them from Iranians who reject the foreign minister’s claim. In response to Zarif’s statement, Iranian human rights activist and journalist Heshmat Alavi tweeted, “You’re [sic] hands are drenched in the blood of millions across the region.

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  1. nicu says

    Oct 19, 2017 at 8:06 am

    I fully agree on that . Glad he realizes that .

    I remember a picture where Israel and Iran leaders yell at each other sitting on the top while on the floor the people of both countries reach for a handshake .

    Isn’t hate and war spread by leaders first – any time ?

  2. common sense says

    Oct 19, 2017 at 10:16 am

    Obama’s FBI and DOJ along with Clinton as former SOS gave these maniacs billions and Nuclear capabilities and sold off Uranium to Russia while fabricating nonsense about Trump/Russia collusion. The very same people that have investigated Russia and it’s desire to obtain our uranium since 2009 are now investigating Trump, at least Mueller is one of them. They want a scape goat.
    The increase in severity and frequency of jihad attacks are no coincidence since 2015. Think about it, the DOJ and FBI aren’t going to investigate themselves. We are frozen and on the verge of becoming a failed state.

  3. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Oct 19, 2017 at 12:33 pm

    He;s right about ordinary Iranians being against the regime. When Iranians go on vacation to Turkey, you can watch the women happily unveiling once a short drive from the border. Its only a matter of time untill things change for better there.

    • Budvarakbar says

      Oct 19, 2017 at 1:04 pm

      You are falling for that olde lie re the majority of Iranians are against the regime — that is TOTAL BS — the only ones against the regime are the upper, upper classes – what’s left of them after the ones that could get out have been doing so for over 50 years — maybe 10% max of the 80 million population — I do not see any real opposition – even from the vaunted ‘students’ — 1979 was 38 years ago — think about it!

    • Budvarakbar says

      Oct 19, 2017 at 1:10 pm

      What percentage of Iranians do you think can afford to go to Turkey for a “vacation”? — and then not observe their shared religion’s demands?

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Oct 19, 2017 at 2:15 pm

        Just passing on what ive seen, what friends of mine saw when cycling across the country, and what iranians ive met told me. You could well be right. i hope not!

      • underbed cat says

        Oct 19, 2017 at 3:52 pm

        Turkey’s Erdoghan is cementing Islam …vacation Turkey, with no hijab could be a sudden problem. The Islamic world is solidifying, and there are enclaves in the U.S. a result of not exposing or ridding the deception and those who deceive it has grown at a quick pace. Which is utter insanity.

        • LeftisruiningCanada says

          Oct 19, 2017 at 6:47 pm

          That’s true, and he’s been at it a while now despite much opposition (2013 taksim square for example). Theres hope for Turkey yet, and still a great deal of respect for MK Atatürk out in the countryside. Might come to a fight though…..unfortunately.

    • David says

      Oct 20, 2017 at 10:45 am

      Being against the regime is not necessarily the same as being against the teachings of Islam. Do they want to overthrow their regime just to replace it with one that is equally bad?

  4. underbed cat says

    Oct 19, 2017 at 1:45 pm

    IF Netanyahu said the Islamic Revolutionary Guard I would understand his comment better, he left out the word adjective Islam. Since the Islamic sharia law rules Iran….and many people are under their control, meaning the use of terror to suppress. So when I read the comment it seemed as though Netanyahu was saying or including the before revoluton muslims. I listened to ex President Bush make comments today, and heard him say “too often we judge other groups by their worst examples.” I thought to myself …to this I say, that would be the doctrine of Islam as practicing the worst example that is casually defended in the U.S. by the left…dems who seem to ignore the doctrine. The disaster of our war in the middle east was writing constitutions as we pulled out of the countries Afghanistan and Iraq for sharia law which puts Islam hiding under the claim as a pious religion that has justice, tolerance couldn’t be farther from the truth….but to lie about Islam is normal and their propaganda is intense and seductive. Islam is a entire doctrine of warfare against non believers, political organization with soldiers for terror in charge. (jihadi)..that was done under popular Obama….a good choice for subversion undetected by many. Clever doctrine is dangerous doctrine in my opinion.

  5. mortimer says

    Oct 19, 2017 at 3:52 pm

    Benjamin Netanyahu surely is right. Ordinary Iranians in spite of decades of brainwashing do not want totalitarianism and would no doubt welcome a more Western form of pluralism with the freedom of assembly and freedom to form political opposition.

  6. Light_n_Fluffy says

    Oct 19, 2017 at 7:41 pm

    Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf countries have spent far more money over the decades to turn Muslims into extremist nutters and Sunnis are 90% of the world’s Muslims. I’m no defender of Iran but Trump and other Western leaders always seem to turn a blind eye to their oil giving and military hardware buying chums in the Gulf.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Oct 19, 2017 at 8:38 pm

      just the same with the EU giving priority to “arab” culture and immigrants in exchange for more secure energy imports. everyone has been dealing with the same mafia with few concerns for what followed…..or maybe they didnt mind.

  7. Guest says

    Oct 21, 2017 at 1:28 am

    Restricting any form of freedom is the natural way of Iran

  8. Noel Hershfield says

    Oct 21, 2017 at 2:19 am

    Just another day on the Caliphate agenda. Just taking a little time until they kill all of their detractors in their own countries.then the three or four winners kill each other until on emerges victorious,Saudis,Iranianiand,a coalition of Hezbollox,Hamasj,ING,and then the winner gets serious about the West,after internally destroying EU. Start building walls,physical and moral ,or our great grandchildren willl be praying five times a day!

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