Water to the Tigris: A sketch of the long-running entertainment and satire show “This Is It,” which aired here 11 last week, has become a hit in Iran and Hezbollah, Walla learned! culture. The sketch laughs at the fact that the defense minister and the top security officials do not know where the Iranian nuclear sites are and describes a situation in which Israel will be exterminated if it attacks Iran, and it was translated into Persian and surfaced on a prominent Iranian site.
In the sketch, Moni Moshonov plays Defense Minister Ganz, during a security discussion, who asks the security personnel to update where Israel is preparing for an attack on Iran. “What about the nuclear sites we do not know about?”, He asks them. Gidi Gov, in the form of a senior officer, replies: “Basically, Mr. Ganz, we do not know about them.” Ganz’s character adds, “But what do you do about it?” The officer figure replies: “Basically, if we do not know about them, Honorable Minister, then basically we can not do anything about these targets because we know nothing about them.” Ganz says calmly: “I understand. Beauty of a plan.”
Braba, who plays Gantz’s adviser, later asks what the assessments are in response to the expected attack on Iran by Israel, and the officer points to the map and describes a response of rocket launches on Israel by Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas. He further says that “there will be only one building left that will not be damaged” and that “there will be some population left here and maybe some guys here.”
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The sketch was translated into Persian and appeared on “Chaos Media”, a major website in Iran. In addition, he is often partnered by network anchors in Lebanon affiliated with Hezbollah, says Tal Barry, head of the research department at the Alma Center for the Study of Israel’s Security Challenges in the North. One of them is Ali Shuaib, a reporter in al-Manar’s southern Lebanon, Hezbollah’s television station, a well-known figure considered one of Hezbollah’s main mouthpieces, who tweeted the sketch a few days ago, and wrote with “satirical video” quotes and later a “joke of the scores on the threats of The Israelis are against Iran. ” His tweet alone received over a thousand likes and hundreds of retweets. According to Barry, the sketch provoked a debate on the social networks of Hezbollah supporters, and many of them interpreted Israel’s self-criticism as an Israeli weakness.
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Zionist representatives joke about the Israeli threats against Iran!! pic.twitter.com/CXy6tg8dLK– علي شعيب || Ali Shoeib ???????? (@ alishoeib1970) December 25, 2021
In response to the success of “That’s It” in these surprising cuts, Walla says! Gidi Gov Culture: “I’m glad we broke into Iran and expanded our audience by 80 million people.” Daniel Lapin, the show’s lead screenwriter and who also signed this sketch, adds: “The question now is how I, as a writer, get royalties from Iran on it.”
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