Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded tepidly to Hassan Rohani's Rosh Hashanah Twitter greetings on Saturday, saying he is not impressed by "Greetings coming from the mouth of a regime that only last week threatened to eradicate the State of Israel." Netanyahu added that the Iranian leadership will be evaluated through its actions, and not via greetings "whose only goal is to divert attention from the fact that even after the elections, it continues the enrichment of uranium and the cunstruction of a plutonium reactor meant to allow it to develop nuclear weapons that will threaten Isr

Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has confirmed reports of President Hassan Rowhani's well-wishes on Jewish new year on social networking platform Twitter on Thursday. CNN's Christiane Amanpour posted a message on Facebook stating that she had just spoken to the Iranian foreign minister who confirmed to her Rowhani' tweets. “Just spoke with Iran's foreign minister who confirms he IS tweeting and wishes Jews in Iran & around the world a happy new year!,” Amanpour wrote in a tweet.