The defense minister said that even as Iranians were “fighting for bread” last month “on the streets of Tehran,” Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, carried out a number of logistical actions in Syria that cost $70 million. Liberman signed off the post saying, “for your information,” and congratulating Iran for its impressive showing at the World Cup.Liberman’s appeal to the Iranians comes two weeks after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu uploaded a video translated into Persian in which he offered the Iranian people help in dealing with the country’s acute water shortage.Those types of appeals are effective, Zimmt said at the time. He added that he was in favor of positive messages to the Iranian people – about how Israel can help – and that those messages were far more effective than the ones about how terrible the Iranians have it. “You have to turn to the average citizens, and it is better do that through positive messages – where you can help them – rather than talk again about a lack of freedom or democracy,” he said. “They know that the regime is corrupt. They know that the economic situation is difficult. And they know that they don’t have democracy. They don’t need the prime minister of Israel to remind them.”אני פונה כאן לאזרחי איראן - לאן הולך הכסף שלכם? pic.twitter.com/fABW8ecaEd
— אביגדור ליברמן (@AvigdorLiberman) June 26, 2018