X accounts are amplifying an Israeli minister in suspected foreign influence campaign

Who is behind the accounts reposting Israeli Minister Gila Gamliel's messages – from threatening the ayatollah regime and praising the Shah's exiled son?

Less than a week after the end of the war between Israel and Iran, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology posted an unusually successful video on her X account. The AI-generated clip opens with the caption "Next year in free Tehran" and shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Gamliel and her partner, and Reza Pahlavi – the exiled son of deposed Iranian shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi – and his wife, strolling through the streets of Tehran, smiling to the sound of Persian music.

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