Tel Aviv: Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached out to Iranians through a direct video message on Sunday, urging them to “stand up” against tyranny so the two nations may return to being true friends.
Israel is not trying to divide Iran, Netanyahu said. “We are trying to free Iran”, he stated in the message on X.
“The moment of truth is approaching. Liberation from the yoke of tyranny will depend on you. If you stand up, the day will not be far off when Israel and Iran will return to being true friends”, the Israeli PM said.
There was a risk that Iran would initiate the attack, prompting the Israeli administration to pre-empt the strikes on Tehran, Netanyahu said.
“And every day we strip it of a new layer of its strength,” he added.
This message came even as the US-Israel war on Iran entered its second week on Sunday, with Tel Aviv continuing targeting multiple sites in Tehran and other major cities.
In retaliation, Iran continues to target facilities linked to the United States and Israel across the Gulf.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards said they had hit America’s Juffair base in Bahrain, adding that it had been used to target an Iranian desalination plant earlier on Saturday, as reported by News18.
Air raid warnings sounded in Jerusalem and Qatar’s Doha, with attacks on the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
Meanwhile, US president Donald Trump, on Saturday, blamed Iran for what his country’s authorities called a “deadly strike” on a girls’ school in the southern Iranian county of Minab, which killed more than 150 people, mostly students.
Trump said the attack was likely carried out by Iran itself, while speaking to reporters on board Air Force One.
“We think it was done by Iran. Because they are very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions. They have no accuracy whatsoever,” he said.
