Israeli Minister of Information: 25 Israeli Legislators Withdraw Their Signatures from Letter Violating Iran's Territorial Integrity

Through the efforts of Israeli Minister of Information Gila Gamliel, 25 out of 32 signatories of a letter in the Israeli parliament, which was interpreted as a "verbal assault" on Iran's "territorial integrity," have retracted their signatures. On Tuesday, April 12, Gamliel published an image of a letter indicating that most signatories of a letter that mentioned "South Azerbaijan" have retreated from their previous position. Gamliel tweeted: "After I learned about the so-called support plan for the disintegration of parts of Iran, I convinced most members of the Israeli parliament to withdraw from this letter and its text." She emphasized that the "struggle" against the Islamic Republic as a "radical religious regime is a common desire of many nations" and that "this path" must continue. Last Thursday, some members of the Israeli parliament had sent a letter to Eli Cohen, the country's foreign minister, requesting that Israel put pressure on Tehran due to "violent actions" against what they called the "Azeri minority" residing in the province of "South Azerbaijan" in northwestern Iran. The retraction of these Israeli parliament members comes after Prince Reza Pahlavi reacted on Twitter to the "verbal assault" of 32 Israeli parliament members on Iran's "territorial integrity," stating that this behavior is "unacceptable" and "serves the anti-Iranian regime of the Islamic Republic." Prince Reza Pahlavi described the statements of these Israeli parliament members as "unwise" and "completely contrary to the positions of Israeli leaders and senior officials" with whom he had met. In response to the retraction of the Israeli parliament members from their previous position, political activist Najat Bahrami tweeted: "Yes, if a country has a leader who thinks about his country instead of Gaza and Lebanon, this is the result, that with one tweet, members of parliament from a powerful country are forced to retract their anti-Iranian signatures."