Iran’s Struggle with Israel Is Ideological and Religious—Not Geopolitical
A Shiite twist on the war against the Jews.
September 14, 2021
Iran’s Struggle with Israel Is Ideological and Religious—Not Geopolitical
A Shiite twist on the war against the Jews.
While the Islamic Republic invests enormous resources in supporting groups that attack the Jewish state, and the Jewish state likewise sees the Islamic Republic as its greatest strategic threat, the two have no fundamentally competing interests or territorial disputes. Instead, writes Eran Lerman, their conflict stems entirely from the ayatollahs’ theological commitment to destroying Israel:
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