Iranians prefer 'precise' Israeli strike over US attack as protests resume at universities

Iranians, while "waiting every minute and second" for a US strike against the Islamic Regime, would prefer an Israeli strike due to the precise nature of the Air Force's strikes in June, while there is a perception that US strikes would "bring terrible destruction, like in Iraq and Afghanistan," a local, identified as Ali told KAN Reshet Bet on Sunday.

Ali added that the Israeli strikes in June focused on targeted hits against "the mercenaries of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps" and the Iranian regime's leadership, and did not cause harm to "ordinary citizens" or any economic infrastructure.

Additionally, he told KAN that the regime has "brutally murdered and dismembered" over 40,000 people, and injured hundreds of thousands more during the anti-regime protests over the past two months.

Ali, discussing the resumed university student protests, said that the regime has used brutal and savage force, murdering and kidnapping students to "choke the protests in their infancy."

Israel's public broadcaster also asked Ali if he was afraid to be interviewed by Israeli radio. In response, he quoted a Persian proverb, including that if the regime kidnaps and kills him, then "at least I will rest, at least I won't feel hungry."

Iranians adopt nickname for PM Netanyahu

Further, he added that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has grown in popularity in Iran, with everyone calling him "Bibi-Gol [Bibi the flower]," while telling Ben-Ami that he has been learning Hebrew and that the regime has kept Hebrew-learning platforms open.

The regime has intended these platforms to be used to further its hopes that it will conquer Israel, wanting citizens to know the language, possibly aiding in espionage. "This will help you," the regime tells citizens, according to Ali.

Basij tried to intimidate us, but we shouted louder, student protesters tell N12

Later on Sunday, two university students active in the weekend's protests in Tehran spoke to N12 News about the weekend's events and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps paramilitary Basij force's attempt to suppress protest activity.

One of the students, attending Sharif University, told the Israeli news channel that the regime believed it could "extinguish the fire that burns within us students for protest and revolution" by keeping campuses closed, but they failed to do so.

Saturday was the first day campuses reopened following a closure last month amid the height of anti-regime protests, they noted.

"The moment we entered campus, we looked each other in the eyes... as if to say to each other: we haven't stopped in the middle, we don't leave work half-done. We all had suppressed anger," they added.

Describing the atmosphere upon return to campus, they said that "Everyone was looking for our friends who were killed - the absence of many has been felt. This sadness turned into shared anger that pulled us to the center of the campus."

"Basij forces positioned themselves in front of us, threatened, and intimidated us," they continued.

The paramilitary members, along with "pro-regime students entered, positioned themselves in front of us, and began to threaten and intimidate us, but we shouted louder," they said.

"Our friends shouted 'Long live the Shah' and Basij shouted 'Haider' [a nickname for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei], the same slogan that is used as a signal for Shia to kill and slaughter us," they recalled.

"We shouted at them: 'We are the owners of the land - get out of here, Khamenei,' which led Basij members to attack, confront, and try to suppress us. This time we stood up to them," they continued.

Another student, at Amir Kabir University in Tehran, told N12 that "We had planned about 10 days in advance to hold a sit-in strike within the campus."

"Security, Basij, and pro-regime students were spread around the area. Most of the chants were: 'Death to the dictator,' 'Long live the Shah,' 'Death to corruption,' 'Freedom, freedom,' and 'This is the year of blood - Ali [Khamenei] will fall," they stated.