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Danon's Office Says Nearly 40% of Instagram Viewers of His Starlink Video Are in Iran

Courtroom-sketch editorial illustration of a white rectangular Starlink satellite internet dish tilted on its grey four-legged stand on a leaf-strewn patch of pavement beside a house, its cable trailing past melting snow, with an air-conditioning unit and white-railed wooden porch steps behind it, drawn from a January 2024 photograph taken in the United States; a contextual image of a Starlink user terminal like the one Israeli U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon offered Iran's U.N. delegation in his video, not a depiction of Danon, the video, Netanyahu's U.N. speech or anyone in Iran.

Israeli U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon's office said his video offering a Starlink terminal to Iran's U.N. delegation has drawn about 9 million views, and that 39.9% of its Instagram viewers were in Iran, ahead of the United States at 14.3% and Israel at 12.6%. The video shows the Iranian representative refusing the device after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu displayed one in his General Assembly speech. A Danon representative said accounts the office believes are Iranian were recirculating a 2023 clip of former ambassador Gilad Erdan being escorted from the General Assembly, calling it a "disinformation campaign." "From our perspective, the Danon video moved something in Iran," the representative said.

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