Netanyahu offers Israeli water tech to solve Iran’s growing environmental crisis

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offers Israel’s water expertise to an Iran he says faces an environmental disaster due to persistent drought.

In an English-language video posted online, Netanyahu makes “an unprecedented offer to Iran.”

He explains: “The Iranian people are victims of a cruel and tyrannical regime that denies them vital water. Israel stands with the people of Iran…. Iran’s meteorological organization says that nearly 96 percent of Iran suffers from some levels of drought. Issa Kalantari, a former Iranian agriculture minister, said that 50 million Iranians could be forced out of their homes due to environmental damage. 50 million! Millions of Iranian children are suffering due to mismanagement, to incompetence, and the theft of vital resources by the Iranian regime.”

Israel has solved many of its water challenge, the prime minister notes, by developing “cutting edge technologies to address them. Israel recycles nearly 90% of its wastewater. That’s far more than any other country on earth. We invented drip irrigation. Our technology targets individual plants with exactly the nutrients they need for the plant.”

And so, since “Iran bans Israelis from visiting,” Israel is launching a Persian-language website and Telegram channel that will give Iranians “the knowhow to prevent environmental catastrophe in Iran.”

The site includes “detailed plans on how Iranians can recycle their wastewater. We will show how Iranian farmers can save their crops and feed their families.”

In case anyone misses the political point, he explains that too. “The Iranian regime shouts ‘Death to Israel!’ In response, Israel shouts, ‘Life to the Iranian people!’ The people of Iran are good and decent. They shouldn’t have to face such a cruel regime alone. We are with you. We will help so that millions of Iranians don’t have to suffer. The hatred of Iran’s regime will not stop the respect and friendship between our two peoples.”