Netanyahu stirs debate in Iran with ‘rise up’ call, water pledge
IRAN INTERNATIONAL -- Benjamin Netanyahu’s call on Iranians to rise up—coupled with a promise of Israeli help to solve the country’s water shortages—set off a wave of praise, criticism, and ridicule across Iran’s political spectrum and online.
Newsrael News Desk 17.08.2025
In an August 12 video, the Israeli prime minister cited President Masoud Pezeshkian’s own admission of deep crises to assert that Iranians don’t even have clean water to give to their children.
He pledged that once people toppled the Islamic Republic and Iran was “free,” Israeli water experts would go to “every city” with desalination and recycling technology.
REACTIONS: FROM PRAISE TO SCORN
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