Other Iranian Twitter users composed their messages in English and even Hebrew. User @sa7dar promoted the hashtag, in Hebrew, “#khinam_ gonen_segev,” mistakenly using the Hebrew word for “free of charge” rather than the word for “liberty.”اسرائیل رو از درون ساقط میکنیم !ما اینیم دیگه..#FreeGonenSegev
— رمیصا (@Remisa77) June 18, 2018
— سردارم (@sa7dar) June 18, 2018Some Persian-language Twitter users falsely claimed that mass protests had broken out in Israel in support of Segev. Many, including the user @jihadmoghniy, tweeted a picture taken at the 2014 social justice protests in Jerusalem. "Mass demonstrations by the Israeli people for the release of Gonen," the message reads.
Officially, Twitter is banned in Iran, but is nevertheless used by many Iranians, including President Hassan Rouhani, Foreign Minister Muhammad Javad Zarif, and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Support for Segev’s arrest could also be seen. “Those who serve the Ayatollahs deserve death, just as they execute those accused of spying in Iran,” read one tweet. Other Twitter users mentioned the case of the Iranian Mohammad Salas, who was accused of killing three policemen during the protests in Tehran last February, and was executed the same day as the Segev announcement.Still other Twitter users saw the announcement as an opportunity for levity.“Perhaps it will be difficult for you to believe, but Netanyahu is also our spy didn’t you see that he wanted to solve our water crisis. Need I say more???” User @saeid199069 wrote in a tongue-in-cheek post.#FreeGonenSegevاعتراضات سراسری مردم اسراﺋیل برای آزادی گوﺋن (برانداز طور) pic.twitter.com/ZND0BH2n8o
— Ali (@jihadmoghniy) June 18, 2018
شاید باورش براتون سخت باشه نتانیاهو هم جاسوسمونه دیدی میخواست مشکل آبمون رو حل کنه .جلوتر این بیایم؟؟؟#FreeGonenSegev
— سرجوخه (@saeid199069) June 18, 2018