Iranian Journalist: “The IDF Is Doing The World’s Dirty Work”

Iranian journalist Zaharia, an independent reporter who now lives in Germany, has decided to fight for Israel online and on campuses across the country.

“I love Israel. Thank you for supporting the Iranian people,” she said.

Zaharia, who was born in Iran and fled the Islamic Republic, told Rega News in an interview that many Iranians see Israel very differently from the way the Islamic Republic presents it.

“Most Iranians hate the regime and love Israel,” she said. “They want you to keep fighting the cruel regime and bring it down. People are longing for Israel to strike Iran. Israel is doing the dirty work for the world.”

Iran’s People And Israel

Her comments point to a sharp divide between the Islamic Republic and many Iranians themselves.

For decades, the Islamic Republic has tried to turn Israel into an enemy in the minds of Iranians. It built its regional identity around anti-Israel propaganda, Holocaust denial, terror funding, and threats against the Jewish state.

However, that campaign does not erase the deeper story between Persians and Jews.

The Islamic Republic wants the world to believe that Iran and Israel are natural enemies. Yet many Iranians outside the regime tell a different story. They separate the Iranian people from the radical rulers who seized their country, crushed dissent, and used hatred of Israel as a political weapon.

Zaharia’s message reflects that divide. She is defending Israel while also rejecting the regime that claims to speak for Iranians.

A Shared Persian-Jewish History

The relationship between Jews and Persia is one of the oldest in Jewish history. Jews have lived in Persian lands for more than 2,500 years, preserving their faith, language, family life, and communal identity across generations.

That history includes hardship, but it also includes deep memory and connection.

That history did not disappear after the Islamic Revolution. Some Iranian Jews carried it with them to Israel, preserving family objects, religious items, and memories from the communities they left behind.

In Jewish tradition, the Persian King Cyrus is remembered as the ruler who allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild after exile. In Israel, that memory still lives in public space, from history books to streets in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem named in his honor. It is a reminder that Jews and Persians are not enemies, despite the Islamic Republic’s attempt to erase history.

For centuries, Persian Jewish communities built synagogues, traded, wrote literature, prayed, and contributed to the wider culture around them. Their story did not begin with Islamic propaganda. It began long before the current Islamic Republic existed.

Therefore, when Iranian voices speak openly for Israel today, they are not inventing a new connection. They are exposing one the regime is attempting to bury.

Persian Jews And Modern Israel

Today, Persian Jews form a strong and visible part of Israeli society. Many families came to Israel after the Islamic Revolution, bringing Persian language, food, music, memory, and identity into the Jewish state.

That Persian-Jewish connection is still visible across Israel today, from family traditions and Farsi-speaking communities to Iranian Jewish businesses, food, music, and cultural memory.

Their presence is also a reminder that Iran’s story is not only the story of the current regime. It is the story of ancient communities, exiles, families, poets, merchants, dissidents, and people who still speak in a language the regime does not control.

Meanwhile, many Iranians continue to follow Israeli news and speak against the regime online. Many do so from exile in the diaspora. Others inside Iran do so quietly, knowing the risks.

Zaharia’s activism in Germany fits into that wider pattern. She is using social media and campus spaces to defend Israel, confront antisemitism, and thank Israelis for standing with the Iranian people.

Against The Regime

The Islamic Republic has spent years trying to separate Jews and Persians. It presents Israel as the enemy while it represses its own people and fuels terror abroad.

Yet Zaharia’s words cut through that propaganda.

She says many Iranians hate the regime and love Israel. She also says they want Israel to keep fighting the cruel regime and bring it down.

For Israel, that message carries moral weight. The Jewish state is not fighting the Iranian people. It is confronting a regime that threatens Israelis, represses Iranians, and tries to destroy an ancient bond between two peoples.

Zaharia’s voice shows that the regime does not own Iran’s future. Many Iranians still see Israel not as an enemy, but as a partner in the fight against tyranny.