Ordinary Iranians have been taking to social media with messages of solidarity with Israel in response to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s appeal to them on Monday.
The hashtag #TnxBBfromIran is short for Thanks Bibi from Iran. The hashtag began appearing in comments on Netanyahu’s video at his YouTube channel, then spread to X, formerly known as Twitter.
“Our war is not against you,” Netanyahu said in English.
“With every passing moment, the regime is bringing you — the noble Persian people — closer to the abyss,” Netanayhu said. “The vast majority of Iranians know their regime doesn’t care a whit about them. If it did care, if it cared about you, it would stop wasting billions of dollars on futile wars across the Middle East. It would start improving your lives. Imagine if all the vast money the regime wasted on nuclear weapons and foreign wars were invested in your children’s education, in improving your health care, in building your nation’s infrastructure, water, sewage, all the other things that you need. Imagine that.”