According to Khabaronline, an Iranian news agency, Araghchi said in the same interview that he does not watch fictional productions.
Below are excerpts from his remarks:
Host: In the Netflix series “Tehran,” produced by Israel, it was claimed that Tel Aviv had managed to infiltrate Iranian society and exploit it. Some analysts—especially those close to Iran’s political landscape—argue that Iran’s vulnerabilities partly stem from the betrayal of certain internal actors. Today, to what extent can Iran define an “internal enemy” before an “external enemy”?
Araghchi: First of all, I don’t watch fictional films. That series is a fictional work built on narration and storytelling. But the existence of infiltration and espionage is natural; Israel itself faces the same situation. Recently, Israel announced that a person in a sensitive center had been arrested for providing information to Iran. That is a reality, not a theory.
The recent war allowed us to close many of our security gaps. As I said, the war gave us valuable experience because it revealed our weak points and we addressed them. They believed that if this war started, the Iranian people would take to the streets to protest against the government and the system. But what happened was the exact opposite: people took to the streets to support the government and the country. As a result, our national cohesion grew stronger.
They also thought that if our military commanders were assassinated during the first hours of the war, our armed forces would collapse. But the opposite happened—replacement commanders were immediately appointed, and the armed forces fought with even higher morale. This war, initiated by the Israeli regime, was based on misunderstandings and miscalculations. And as I said, repeating this mistake will lead to nothing but a similar defeat.
Tehran is a 2019 Israeli spy series about a Mossad agent infiltrating Iran.