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Tehran Times (29 June 2026)

Garsha Vazirian

On June 28, the Israeli cabinet executed a maneuver it had fiercely resisted for decades. In a unanimous vote, ministers approved Foreign Minister Gideon Saar’s proposal to formally recognize the mass killings of Ottoman Armenians during World War I as a “genocide.”

The motion was publicly championed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the very man who for years had suppressed it in order to preserve a lucrative partnership with Turkey, a NATO ally that formally recognized the regime as early as March 1949. On the surface, the regime tried to present a polished performance of historical duty.

A moral epiphany forged in political spite

Israel did not suddenly unearth hidden archival evidence in the middle of 2026.

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