The history between Israel and Iran began with close collaboration, but changed after the Islamic revolution of 1979 and tension worsened in the 21st century.
Iran, who was an ally of Israel under the shah’s regime, made a 180-degree turn after the islamic revolution of 1979, and became the great regional enemy of the Hebrew State, which led to the recent drone attack.
However, the bilateral relationship that today has the markets in suspense and puts pressure on the price of Petroleum It has several milestones in recent decades:
- Two years after the creation of the State of Israel, In 1950, Iran became the second Muslim country, after Türkiye, to recognize the new country. Iran is then home to the largest Jewish community in Middle East. Israel currently has an important diplomatic mission in Iran and imports 40% of its oil needs from that country in exchange for weapons, technology and agricultural products.
- The collaboration is so close that the fearsome Iranian political police, the Savak, It was created in 1957 with the help of the INC American and after Mossad Israeli.
relationship cut
- In 1979, with the establishment of the Islamic Republic, Iran cuts all official relations with Israel, which it no longer recognizes. However, informal trade links remain.
- In 1980, the Islamic Jihad, Iranian-inspired, it becomes the first Palestinian Islamist organization to take up arms against Israel. Yet Israel delivers missiles to Tehran during the war Iran-Iraq (1980-1988). The operation was revealed in the case of the sale of American weapons to Iran (Irangate), a maneuver aimed at obtaining the release of American hostages held captive in Lebanon.
- In 1982, Israel invades Lebanon to put an end to the Palestinian attacks from that neighboring country, then in the midst of a civil war. The Guardians of the Revolution, ideological army of the Islamic Republic, help the creation of Hezbollah, a Shiite movement that established itself in southern Lebanon and launched an armed struggle against Israel.
- Israel accuses Iran and Hezbollah of being involved in numerous attacks against Israeli or Jewish interests abroad. This same Thursday, the Argentine justice system determined that the attacks on the Israeli embassy in 1992 and the Israeli mutual AMIA in 1994, which caused more than a hundred deaths, were ordered by Iran.
- In 1998, Iran claims to have tested the surface-to-surface missile for the first time. Shahab-3, with a range of 1,300 km and capable of hitting Israel.
The tension rises
- With the election in 2005 of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the tension skyrockets. The ultraconservative president advocates on several occasions for the disappearance of Israel, and calls the Holocaust. That same year, Iran resumes its nuclear enrichment activities. uranium in Isfahan.
- In July 2015, Iran concluded an agreement with the major Western powers to put a stop to its nuclear program, which it defends is peaceful. “Israel is not bound by that agreement because Iran continues to want our destruction,” the prime minister then warns. Benjamin Netanyahu who insists that the Iranian objective is the atomic bomb.
- Since 2013, and with Syria in civil war, Israel frowns upon the military intervention of Hezbollah and Tehran to support the regime. Bashar al Assad. Israel carries out hundreds of attacks against its Syrian neighbor, targeting government troops, Iranian forces and Hezbollah fighters.
- In November 2017, Netanyahu mentions Israel’s “fruitful” and “secret” cooperation with Arab countries, in a context of concern about Iran’s growing influence in the Middle East.
- Israel, an unofficial nuclear power, supports the United States when this country announces in May 2018 its withdrawal from the agreement with Iran.
The last years
- In September 2020, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, United by their animosity towards Iran, they sign normalization agreements with Israel. The following months, Israel accuses Iran of attacking ships, while Tehran accuses the Jewish State of murdering engineers and sabotaging the uranium enrichment factory in Natanz, in the center of the country.
- The attacks attributed to Israel against Iranian targets in Syria They multiply. In them, a colonel (November 2022) and then a commander (December 2023) of the Revolutionary Guards died.
- On April 1, 2024, an attack attributed to Israel destroys the Iranian consulate in Damascus, and causes, according to the NGO Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), 16 deaths, including two generals of the Guardians. About two weeks later, this Saturday, April 13, Iran launches an attack with drones and missiles from its territory against Israel.
Source: Ambito
