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Official Reaction to Israeli PM’s Message to Iranian People

In reaction to a recent video message by the Prime Minister of Israeli regime to Iranian people, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman said if Benjamin Netanyahu cares about Iranian people, he would better try to kill less Palestinians.

“I don’t like to talks about a Zionist official who makes nonsense remarks all the time and has the blood of Palestinians on his hands,” Bahram Qassemi said in his weekly press conference on Monday.

“If he is worried about Iranian people, he’d better decrease the number of Palestinians he kills, and this might be the best thing he can do. He’d better not to talk about Plasco [building collapse] and Iran,” he added, according to media reports.

In video message posted to Facebook, Israeli PM Netanyahu said both Israeli and Iranian people ‘can work together for more peaceful and hopeful future’.

He stressed that Israel does not consider the Iranian people to be the enemy, but ‘only the regime that rules them’.

“I plan to speak soon with President Trump about how to counter the threat of the Iranian regime, which calls for Israel’s destruction,” Netanyahu said in the video, speaking in English with Persian subtitles.

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