Posted on 01/11/2026 4:26:25 PM PST by SunkenCiv
An Iranian protester told KAN Reshet Bet that many Iranians admire Netanyahu and Israeli strikes, while blaming economic collapse, repression, and inflation for the unrest.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently the most popular person in Iran, a Tehran resident told KAN Reshet Bet on Wednesday...
They also told KAN that Iranians were "impressed" by Israeli strikes on Iran in June, as part of Operation Rising Lion, as the air force "focused only on regime infrastructure and did not harm civilians."
...The Iranian is an opponent of the Islamic Republic regime and has participated in demonstrations over the past 11 days. He is not Jewish, but recalled Hebrew words he had learned in Jewish community classes he had previously attended...
"We have no water. We have no electricity. We are one of the richest countries in the world, but our people are the poorest," he stated.
"The Iranian people ask the regime leadership why they divide the wealth among themselves, and help Hamas, Hezbollah, the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq, the Houthis, and Afghanistan, but when it comes to their own people, they say 'no, you can wait, you need to pay taxes,'" he said...
"We are not allowed to celebrate and dance. We are a country of 90 million people who are all prisoners," he concluded.
(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...
Netanyahu: Once regime in Tehran falls, Israel and Iran will become partners again
By Lazar Berman Follow
11 January 2026, 1:28 pm
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-if-regime-in-tehran-falls-israel-and-iran-will-become-partners-again/
I think someone needs to do a welfare check on Candace Owens.
Welfare check, Candace Owens, is this some kind of FRracism, whine whine whine. 😉
Great point
You think this is any different?
We live in a world in which all governments, their intelligence agencies, and their sympathetic media, cherry-pick "ordinary people" to recite approved talking points and create a narrative.
Maybe we’ll find out what Obama did for the mullahs
Now I see why there are no liberals supporting the Iranians.
You use multiple nicks on FR. You think this one is any different?
How the Neocons paraded a series of Iraqis exiles before the cameras, who told us that ordinary Iraqis loved America and Israel and the West and freedom, if only we would remove Saddam for them?
That’s gonna go over really well with the religious Iranian hypocrites running Iran.
As long as I don’t have to watch the video of his acts, I’d enjoy that.
Iran had a huge Jewish population that was allowed to leave after the revolution during Carter’s reign. There is still a Jewish presence in Iran today.
I’m surprised there were any Israeli flags in Iran to brandish in these mass demonstrations.
Do you have any rational counter-arguments? Or just baseless snipes?
we live in interesting times
You know, you really shouldn’t try to run the con this far.
Some people on FR are going to be crying into their pillows tonight.
The number of nations that want to kill all Jews and wipe Israel off the map for them might be shrinking.
I know of a young Iranian (Muslim but not practicing) who went to CHURCH with her friends for the first time — the weekend of the summer strikes — to pray for the war to stop.
IT did thankfully.
I don’t think they’re fond of either Israel’s or the current Iranian regime...Was my understanding.
I THINK that the everyday Iranian knows that the U.S and Israel not at war, or going after Iranian citizens, only after the terrorist regime and it’s leaders and the thugs that enforce islamic law. I’m hoping that the Iranian citizens prevail and a more representative, capitalist government can be formed and the terrorist thugs of islam wither away. Iran has a chance to be more open like when the Shaw was in charge, without violent enforcement.
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