Iran is a very large and very diverse country. Iran has historically experienced a significant amount of structural political turmoil since 1900, e.g. 1921 coup, 1941 abdication of Reza Shah, 1953 coup and 1979 revolution. Iranians are also far less affluent than Israelis, and thus economically desperate.Difference is that they are in charge of a good part of the rest of the world so their internal protests are not nearly as dangerous as the ones in Iran, where dozens of enemies inside and out can take advantage of to inflict a disproportionate amount of damage.
For those reasons (plus the pernicious influence of psychological warfare and the Western media radicalising the population), it is true that rioters in Iran are more violent than those in Israel.
However, Israel also occupies 5 million Palestinians and is surrounded by powerful resistance forces which regularly fire rockets and missiles into its territory, from Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. Not to mention the increasing militarisation of the resistance in the occupied West Bank. Multiple times a year a large portion of their population is forced to enter bomb shelters. This has never happened in Iran. The scale is totally different.
Therefore, all things considered, I would suggest that their 'internal' situation is far more precarious than Iran's.
NB. The vastly different scale of protests in Iran vs Israel (45,000 out of a 88,000,000 population = 0.05% vs 600,000 out of a 9,000,000 population = 6.7%) is another major consideration. Israel is facing unprecedented internal divisions and these divisions are likely to escalate as both camps become entrenched and view the other as the enemy.
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