"Iran FM says attacks on Israel will end when its ‘aggression stops..’"
- The Times of Israel (
Source, June 15, 2025)
'..In the early 1980s, both Israel and Iran attacked Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor, effectively eliminating his program before he could achieve a weapon..'
- John Spacapan (
Source, April 11, 2020)
'Iran and Israel did have extensive trade, cultural, commercial and military links before the revolution. Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, had envisioned an anti-Arab “Alliance of the Periphery” that also included Iran, Turkey and Ethiopia.
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[The Shah] opposed Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories in the 1967 war, declaring: “The age of occupying other people’s lands by the force of arms has long passed.” At the same time, however, Iran urged Arab states to accept Israel’s existence and drop the unrealistic goal of its destruction.'
- Arash Azizi,
Were Iran and Israel really friends before 1979? It's complicated, April 17, 2024
Context'The start of Iran's nuclear program can arguably be pegged to December 8, 1953,' 2015
(Peace) - Netanyahu's "politics of fear." - '..Mossad .. opposed an order from Netanyahu to prepare a military attack on Iran.' 2015
'..I believe in responsibility but not in pyramidal hierarchy .. the negative value of structure. Structure creates hierarchy, and hierarchy creates constraint..' 1994
(1914 - 2014) - '..the Middle East .. 100 years after that fateful summer in 1914.'1914 - 'Reminder - The Killing Fields' - 'Carl Menger [1840-1921] .. saw .. all civilizations rushing toward the abyss.''..the First World War was the death knell of the century of bourgeois liberalism.'(Catastrophe) BBC - 28 June 1914: Archduke assassinated'Each and every one of them said at the trial, and later said during their imprisonment, that had they known that such a horrendous war would ensue, they would never have taken part in the activities of June 28.'
1914 - '..they would never have taken part in the activities of June 28.'‘..life, liberty, and progress .. cultivating peace.’