Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded on Monday to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s claim that Israel was behind the protests in Iran by calling the notion not only false but laughable.
Officials said that Netanyahu wanted to remain silent regarding the situation inside Iran because he feared that whatever he said would be “manipulated by the regime in Tehran to the detriment of the protestors,” but was forced to speak publicly on the matter when Tehran began spreading lies that Israel was behind the protests, The Jerusalem Post reported.
The Post noted that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani claimed on Monday that the United States and Israel were behind the protests, according to state media.
“Our success in the political arena against the United States and the Zionist regime was unbearable to (Iran’s enemies). Iran’s success in the region was unbearable to them,” Rouhani said. “Don’t you expect that they would seek revenge? Don’t you think they would provoke some people?”
Netanyahu responded with a strong message, condemning the weak response to the protests by European nations, and calling Iran’s claim “false” and “laughable,” saying that he would not insult the Iranian people like Rouhani does.
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