Iranian Telegram channels across the political spectrum are widely circulating a quote attributed to Haaretz, suggesting Israelis will remain in bomb shelters until next year unless Donald Trump is told he has won.
Amid the ongoing military escalation—which has seen widespread US and Israeli strikes on Iranian infrastructure and retaliatory Iranian cluster munitions fired at Tel Aviv—multiple Iranian Telegram channels are heavily circulating a specific quote attributed to the Israeli daily newspaper, Haaretz. The messaging, which garnered nearly 29,000 views across four channels, emphasizes Israeli vulnerability and connects the continuation of the conflict to Donald Trump.
The quote states, "Tell Trump that he has won, otherwise we will remain in shelters until next year," according to the mainstream Iranian news aggregate آخرین خبر. A slightly different translation, circulated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-affiliated کانال اخبار سپاه پاسداران 🏴, reads: "Tell Trump he has won, otherwise we will have to stay in shelters until New Year's Eve." The war-focused channel خبر فوری جنگ ایران broadcast the identical phrasing to its followers.
While most channels presented the quote without additional commentary, the reformist-aligned حامیان پزشکیان (Pezeshkian Supporters) explicitly framed the excerpt as Haaretz's sarcasm directed at "Trump's warmongering." By amplifying this specific Israeli media excerpt, Iranian channels across the political spectrum are projecting a unified narrative of severe Israeli domestic anxiety caused by the recent wave of Iranian retaliatory strikes.
All source messages consist of a single repeated quote attributed to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, with minor translation variations between the Farsi texts. The original Haaretz article is not linked, titled, or dated within any of the Telegram posts.