Iran today responds to a video message from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the Iranian people, telling him to first “stop the massacres against the Palestinian people.”
On Saturday Netanyahu posted on Facebook stressing that Israel does not consider the Iranian people to be the enemy, but only the regime that rules them. While stopping short of calling on the Iranians to revolt, he described a brutal dictatorship preventing them from living the Western lives they ostensibly seek.
Teheran was apparently not impressed.
“Netanyahu ought to stop the massacres against the Palestinian people, and not talk about Iran, the Iranian people or the Plasco incident,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi says at news conference according to Al Arabiya.
The Plasco incident was the collapse of a 17-story building in Tehran, which killed dozens last week.
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