A network of 1,653 fabricated Iranian accounts shifted from promoting Reza Pahlavi to campaigning for Netanyahu and Likud, exposing the coordinated machinery seeking to manufacture Iranian support for Israel's political agenda.

TEHRAN -- A network of 1,653 accounts posing as Iranian users orchestrated a coordinated social media campaign to promote Israel’s criminal prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party ahead of last week's elections, exposing the growing use of fabricated Iranian identities to advance the political interests of Israel's leadership, Haaretz reported.

The accounts, which presented themselves as Iranians living inside Iran or abroad, flooded X with Hebrew-language messages urging Israeli setters to vote for Netanyahu, falsely portraying their endorsements as expressions of support from the Iranian people.

The campaign intensified on election day, with multiple accounts publishing identical messages and responding to posts in coordinated bursts.

According to an analysis by Expose, a social media monitoring company specializing in digital influence operations, two accounts published 109 identical posts, compared with just four expected through organic activity.

They also responded simultaneously, or within five minutes of one another, to 232 posts by 53 different accounts.

One message declared: "We call on you to support Benjamin Netanyahu to finish the job." Another urged Israeli settlers to vote exclusively for Likud.

The findings are particularly significant given the broader activities of Iranian political activists and opposition figures based outside the country who have openly aligned themselves with Washington and Tel Aviv, supported their political agenda and defended their increasingly terrorist campaign against Iran.

Some of these individuals enthusiastically supported the riots that preceded the U.S.-Israeli military aggression against Iran, repeatedly disseminating inflammatory narratives and unverified claims while inflating casualty figures associated with the riots.

Their efforts helped amplify allegations against the Iranian government and promote a fabricated political narrative that was subsequently used to justify further pressure and aggression against the country.

Their conduct became even more disturbing as the United States and Israel launched their military campaign against Iran. Rather than condemning attacks on Iranian territory, civilian infrastructure and populated areas, some of these self-proclaimed representatives of the Iranian people openly defended or attempted to justify the destruction inflicted on their homeland, including the terrorist U.S. attack on a school in Minab.

Their public rhetoric has also revealed the extent of their political affinity with some of Iran's most aggressive adversaries. Referring to Benjamin Netanyahu as "Bibi", Donald Trump as "Uncle Trump" and U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, known for his enmity toward Iran, as "Uncle Graham", they have employed affectionate and deferential language towards figures associated with the terrorist campaign against Iran, even as they support policies and military actions that have brought devastation to the Iranian population.

Expose found that approximately 1,600 of the accounts had previously been identified as part of an influence operation promoting Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran's former shah, as an alternative to the Islamic Republic.

As Israel's election campaign gathered momentum in July, 185 accounts began interacting with Netanyahu's social media profiles and amplifying messages attacking his political opponents.

Following the election, the network reportedly returned to its previous focus on Pahlavi.

The Brandeis Institute and FakeReporter subsequently petitioned Israel's so-called central elections committee over the accounts. Committee chairman Judge Noam Solberg said their activity appeared to violate election advertising transparency requirements but declined to issue a definitive ruling because the operators of the accounts could not be established. He referred the evidence to police.

The terrorist Israeli prime minister's office and Likud denied any connection to the network.

The episode highlights how Iranian identity has been exploited in online influence operations to manufacture support for Netanyahu and advance political agendas hostile to Iran.

It also raises serious questions about the role of sellout figures abroad who have lent their platforms and political influence to Washington and Tel Aviv while claiming to speak on behalf of the Iranian people.