Qalibaf to Netanyahu: Iran has defeated far bigger foes
Iran Press TV
Thursday, 14 August 2025 12:46 AM
Iran's Majlis (Parliament) speaker has warned the Israeli regime's prime minister that the Iranian nation has, throughout the course of history, defeated adversaries of far greater animosity and battlefield expertise than the Zionist entity.
Historically, the Iranian people have confronted far bigger enemies and consigned them to "the dustbin of history," Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf wrote in a message on his account on X, former Twitter, on Wednesday.
The regime's officials, the top legislator added, had "become helpless and confused" in the face of the nation's insight and strategic discernment.
Qalibaf made the remarks in a strong rebuttal to earlier claims by the regime's premier Benjamin Netanyahu about the status of water provision and supplies in the Islamic Republic, which the former denounced as both misleading and hypocritical.
He cited several instances of the regime, itself's suffering from a water crisis owing to its mismanagement.
According to Qalibaf, due to Israeli officials' ignorant policies some villages across the occupied Palestinian territories received just 12 hours of water per week; thousands of hectares of farmland and orchards had dried up; rivers had been depleted; and crop yields had dropped sharply.
Even the regime's own finance minister has formally recognized drought as the primary challenge, the official added.
He also referenced the regime's using water deprivation as a weapon against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and Tel Aviv's imposed war on Iran in June, during which Israeli warplanes struck a main water pipeline in the capital Tehran.
"The 21st-century Nazis struck the main water artery of northern Tehran in Tajrish in broad daylight with missiles, aiming to bring the capital to a state of water scarcity."
"These same criminals have long been the world's number-one water thieves."
The official, therefore, concluded that "echoes of Israeli officials' crimes have always been louder than their nonsense."
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