Regional Telegram channels are heavily amplifying a quote from former British MP George Galloway, who questioned who controls the United States if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is dead.
In the wake of unprecedented joint United States and Israeli airstrikes across Iran earlier this month, Iranian and regional Telegram channels are widely circulating a provocative quote from former British Member of Parliament George Galloway regarding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
According to the Islamic Resistance Ansarollah Yemen, a channel whose editorial stance is aligned with the Yemeni Houthi movement, Galloway pointedly asked: "If he [Netanyahu] is dead, who is in charge of America now?"The exact same quote was subsequently amplified by Iranian news aggregators, including Breaking News America War Attack and its affiliates, which collectively garnered nearly 20,000 views for the statement.
The regional news aggregator War News | Iran | Afghanistan also highlighted Galloway's remarks. This channel, which frequently covers the ongoing regional conflict from an Iranian-aligned perspective, explicitly noted that Galloway posed this critical question in reference to recent regional developments. According to the channel, Galloway's remarks were aimed directly at underscoring the heavy role and outsized influence that Israel maintains over United States policies in the Middle East.
The source messages do not provide further context on why Galloway posed a hypothetical or referenced rumors about Netanyahu being 'dead', nor do they confirm any such event. The reporting strictly covers the coordinated circulation of this quote as a rhetorical tool across Iranian and Houthi-aligned channels to critique US-Israel relations.