Danon’s Starlink Offer to Iran Draws 9 Million Views as 39.9% of Audience Is in Iran
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Updated · Fox News · Sep 27
Danon’s Starlink Offer to Iran Draws 9 Million Views as 39.9% of Audience Is in Iran
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 27
Summary
Around 9 million social-media views have propelled a video of Israeli U.N. envoy Danny Danon offering a Starlink device to an Iranian representative after Benjamin Netanyahu’s U.N. speech.
Netanyahu displayed the device during his address and asked that it be offered to the Iranian delegation afterward; the Iranian representative declined, and Danon then posted the exchange online.
Instagram analytics shared by Danon’s office showed 39.9% of viewers were in Iran, far ahead of the U.S. at 14.3% and Israel at 12.6%, an unusually large Iranian audience for an Israeli diplomatic account.
Danon’s office said accounts it believes are Iranian responded by recirculating a 2023 video of former envoy Gilad Erdan being escorted from the General Assembly, calling it a disinformation effort to blunt attention on the Starlink clip.
The episode has become part of Israel’s broader messaging to Iranians on internet access and freedom of expression, with Danon’s team arguing the video struck a nerve inside Iran.