WhatsappThe modern Arab-Israeli conflict has been going on in the Land of Israel for around 150 years But the Israel-Iran conflict is just 45 years old. Iran had nothing to do with Israel’s first few wars in 1948, 1956, 1967 or 1973. Egypt was Israel’s main nemesis. Syria and Jordan also fought to destroy Israel. Meanwhile, there were still tens of thousands of Jews who lived in Iran in relative calm and peace, as opposed to nearly every other country in the Middle East where Jews fled or were basically kicked out of.
Before 1979, before the big revolution of the Ayatollahs in Iran, Iran was actually one of the most modernized countries in the Middle East. Large American companies had invested tens of millions of dollars in Iran in order to take part in the modernization of the country. But the opposition to the westernization and modernizing trends was also growing.
In 1979, the revolution toppled the pro-Western Shah, the reigning monarch who was loved or hated by nearly everyone in Iran. The radical Islamic haters took over and since then, they have steadily used the enormous resources that Iran has in order to build a massive terror infrastructure inside of Iran and across the Middle East.
The Ayatollahs were always crystal clear about their intention. The Zionist enterprise was their main target. Yes, they fought a bloody war with Iraq in the 80’s. But Iran was not yet ready to take on Israel. That required more time, until they could build up their reactors, and steadily grow their proxies to become the behemoths of terror that the Hizbullah and Hamas became.
Tens of miles of terror tunnels took years and billions of dollars to build up in Gaza. 140,000 missiles in Lebanon cannot be delivered in a few months. They required smuggling via Syria over a matter of years. Most of all, building up an atomic bomb and enriching uranium required the collusion of foreign countries and feckless leadership around the world to be asleep at the wheel. Iran used the Biden/Blinken Chamberlain-like foreign policy of appeasement to advance their devilish schemes.
Thank G-d, Israel has a leader in Benjamin Netanyahu who has never stopped focusing on the #1 threat facing Israel and the Jewish people. And thank G-d that Israel has the talented pilots and soldiers of the secret service to take down the Iranian threat.
Iran will soon be in a place where they can choose if they are prepared to turn the clock backwards to a time when there was peace and tranquility between Jews and Iranians. The rule of the Ayatollahs is about to end – if the Iranian people overthrow their leadership once and for all. This will probably be their best chance.
