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IranIsrael relations have shifted from close ties between Israel andIran during the era of the Pahlavi

dynasty to hostility since the Islamic Revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Iran has severed all

diplomatic and commercial ties with Israel, and its government does not recognize Israelas a country and

refers to its government as the "Zionist regime". The land is referred to by Iranas "Occupied territories".

Due to recent rhetoricbetween Iran and Israel, development of nuclear technology, and funding of the

groups Hamas and Hezbollah, tensions have risen between theState of Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran,

[1] especially after theelectionof the hardline Mahmoud Ahmadinejadin 2005.

The beginnings of Jewish history inIran date back to late Biblical times. The biblical books

ofIsaiah,Daniel,Ezra,Nehemiah, Chronicles, and Esthercontain references to the life and experiences of

Jews inPersia. In the book of Ezra, the Persian kingCyrus the Greatis credited with permitting and enabling

the Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild their Temple; its reconstruction was carried out "according to the

decree ofCyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia" (Ezra 6:14). This great event in Jewish history took

place in the late sixth century BC, by which time there was a well-established and influential Jewish community

in Persia. Persian Jews have lived in the territories of today's Iranfor over 2,700 years, since the firstJewish

diasporawhen Shalmaneser V conquered the (Northern) Kingdom of Israel (722 BC) and sent

the Israelites into captivity at Khorasan. In586 BC, theBabylonians expelled large populations of Jews

from Judea to the Babylonian captivity. Jews who migrated to ancient Persia mostly lived in their own

communities.

The Jewish Bible'sKetuvim ends inSecond Chronicles with the decree of Cyrus, which returned the exiles to

the Promised Land from Babylon along with a commission to rebuild the temple.

'Thus saith Cyrus, king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth hathYahweh, the God of heaven, given me;

and He hath charged me to build Him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whosoever there is among you

of all His people -- may Yahweh, his God, be with him -- let him go there.' (2 Chronicles 36:23)

This edict is also fully reproduced in the Book of Ezra.

"In the first year of King Cyrus, Cyrus the king issued a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let

the temple, the place where sacrifices are offered, be rebuilt and let its foundations be retained, its height being

60 cubits and its width 60 cubits; with three layers of huge stones and one layer of timbers. And let the cost be

paid from the royal treasury. Also let the gold and silver utensils of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar

took from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be returned and brought to their places in the

temple in Jerusalem; and you shall put them in the house of God. (Ezra 6:3-5)

As a result of Cyrus's policies, the Jews honored him as a dignified and righteous king.

Cyrus ordered rebuilding theSecond Temple in the same place as the first; however, he died before it was

completed. Darius the Great came to power in the Persian empire and ordered the completion of the temple.
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According to the Bible, the prophetsHaggaiandZechariah urged this work. The temple was ready for

consecration in the spring of 515 BCE, more than twenty years after the Jews' return to Jerusalem.

[edit]Israeli independence to Iranian revolution (1948-79)

IranianministerReza Saffinia arriving at thehouse of Israeli president Chaim Weizmann in Rehovot on Yom Ha'atzmaut,

1950.

From the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 until theIranian Revolution and the fall of the Pahlavi

dynasty in 1979, Israel and Iran maintained close ties. Iran was the second Muslim-majority country to

recognize Israel[2]as a sovereign nation afterTurkey.[3][4]Israel viewed Iran as a natural ally as a non-Arab

power on the edge of the Arab world, in accordance with David Ben Gurion's concept of an alliance of the

periphery. Israel had a permanent delegation in Tehran which served as an unofficial de facto embassy.

After theSix Day War, Iran supplied Israel with a significant portion of its oil needs and Iranian oil was shipped

to European markets via the joint Israeli-IranianEilat-Ashkelon pipeline.[5][6]Brisk trade between the countries

continued until 1979.[7] Israeli construction firms and engineers were active in Iran. Iranian-Israeli military links

and projects were kept secret, but they are believed to have been wide-ranging,[8] for example the joint military

project Project Flower(1977-79), an Iranian-Israeli attempt to develop a new missile.[9][10]

In spite of all those ties and trades, Iran voted in support of the UN General Assembly Resolution 3379in 1975

which equated Zionism with racism[11](the resolution, however, was later revoked withResolution 4686 in 1991,

which post-revolution Iran voted against).

[edit]Khomeini era (1979-89)
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During Ayatollah Khomeini's campaign to overthrow Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Israel, which had

relatively warm relations with the Shah, became an issue. Khomeini declared Israel an "enemy of Islam" and

'The Little Satan'[12]- the United States was called 'The Great Satan'.

Debate still runs as to whether Khomeini called out: Israel must be wiped off the map[13]indicating military

action and destruction, or: this regime occupying Jerusalem should vanish from the pages of time indicating a

hope or wish (see Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Israel#"Wiped off the map" or "Vanish from the pages of time"

translation).

After the second phase of the 1979Iranian Revolutionwhich witnessed the establishment of the Islamic

Republic, Iran cut off all official relations; official statements, state institutes, events and sanctioned initiatives

adopted a sharp anti-Zionist stance.

According to Dr. Trita Parsi, author of "Treacherous Alliance - The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the

United States," (Yale University Press, 2007), Iran's strategic imperatives compelled the Khomeini governmentto maintain clandestine ties to Israel, while hope that the periphery doctrine could be resurrected motivated the

Jewish State's assistance to Iran.

[edit]Khamenei era (1989-)

[edit]Remarks of Leader Khamenei

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in December 2000 called Israel a "cancerous tumor" that should be removed from the

region.[14][15]In 2005 he emphasized that Palestine belongs to Palestinians, and the fate of Palestine should

also be determined by the Palestinian people.[16]

Also in 2005Khamenei responded toPresidentAhmadinejad's alleged remark that Israelshould be "wiped off

the map" by saying that "the Islamic Republic has never threatened and will never threaten any country."[17]

[edit]President Khatami 1997-2005

Under reformist Iranian PresidentMohammad Khatami, elected in 1997, some believed IranIsrael relations

would improve. Khatami called Israel an "illegal state" and a "parasite,"[18]but also said in 1999 Jews would be

"safe in Iran" and all religious minorities would be protected.[19]

A report indicates that Iran tried in 2003 to initiate a rapprochement with Israel by recognizing its existence in a

proposal to the United States. The report claims that Iran's peace proposal with Israel was not accepted by the

United States.[20]

In January 2004, Khatami spoke to an Israeli reporter who asked him on what grounds Iran would recognize

Israel. This was believed to be the first time he had spoken publicly with an Israeli.[21]
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At the funeral ofPope John Paul II in April 2005, Khatami was seated close to the Iranian-born Israeli

PresidentMoshe Katsav, who is from the same province, theYazd Province, as Khatami. Katsav said that he

shook Khatami's hand and the two had a brief conversation about Iran. However, Khatami denied this.[22]

[edit]President Ahmadinejad

Main article: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Israel

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in office since August 2005, at the October 2005 "World Without Zionism"

conference in Teheran[23]adopted a sharp anti-Zionist stance.

On December 8, 2005, during a summit ofMuslim nations in Islam's holy city of Mecca, Ahmadinejad told Iran's

Arabic channelAl- Alam a complicated story on Holocaust and the establishment of Israel. Since then, he

regularly makes statements pertaining to these topics.

On November 21, 2011, during [Khorasan's international book fair], the book 'How must the Israel be

destroyed?'[24] was put to display on a very sophisticated ceremony and was chosen as the book of the year in

soft war affairs, which made Radio Israel International Farsi to report the book as the true face of Irans regime,

[25] This book is by a group of Iranian religious scholars. In its seven chapters, the authors showed various

characteristics of Jewish people according to the Holy Quran, the central religious text of Islam, and suggested

some ways to destroy this race. [26]

[edit]Irans Ambassador to the IAEA, Soltanieh

In April 2006, CNNcorrespondentWolf Blitzerinterviewed[27]Ambassador Soltanieh, Irans Permanent

Representative to the IAEA .

Blitzer: () This is what () Ahmadinejad said (): "Israel must be wiped off the map of the world, and god

willing () we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionists." You understand why

people in the West () are so concerned () given those kinds of direct threats against Israel ().

Soltanieh: () the policy of Islamic Republic of Iran () is against any sort of school of thought or regime such

as apartheid, Zionism, racism () apartheid was disappeared and it could not be accepted by civilized world,

this Zionism and aggression of racism is also condemned ().

Blitzer: Does your support for the removal of Zionism mean you want to see Israel destroyed?

Soltanieh: () the Jews, Christians and Muslims () if they come with the Palestinians, homeless

Palestinians, to come and through following the democratic process will decide on a government and live in

peace () Iran will support because we () support peaceful settlement ofthe whole issueand peaceful

coexistence of these divine religions in the Middle East. Let's hope for the peace.

Blitzer: But should there be a state of Israel?
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Soltanieh: I think Ive already answered to you. If Israel is a synonym and will give the indication of Zionism

mentality, no. But if you are going to conclude that we have said the people there have to be removed or we

[said] they have to be massacred or so, this is fabricated, unfortunate selective approach to what the mentality

and policy of Islamic Republic of Iran is. ()

[edit]Vice President Mashaei

In a speech at a tourism convention in Tehran in July 2008, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, Vice President and

Head ofCultural Heritage Organization of Iran, proclaimed, "No nation in the world is our enemy, Iran is a

friend of the nation in the United States and in Israel, and this is an honor. We view the American nation as one

with the greatest nations of the world."[28] He also added that Iran "wants no war with any country," insisting that

Iran's actions during theIranIraq Warwere purely defensive.[29]

Hard-liners close to the government harshly attacked Mashaei's remarks. Ahmadinejad, however, appeared to

defend Mashaei. At a news conference, he said, "The Iranian nation never recognized Israel and will never

ever recognize it. But we feel pity for those who have been deceived or smuggled into Israel to be oppressed

citizens in Israel."[28]

The issue prompted Iran'sSupreme LeaderKhameneito "spell an end to the debates" on Israel. During a

Friday sermon in Tehran, he stated, "It is incorrect, irrational, pointless and nonsense to say that we are friends

of Israeli people... we are on a collision course with the occupiers of Palestine and the occupiers are the Zionist

regime. This is the position of our regime, our revolution and our people."[28]

[edit]Business cooperation

In 1998, Israeli businessmanNahum Manbarwas sentenced to 16 years in prison in Israel for doing business

withTehran, and in the course of the investigation, "hundreds of companies" were found to have illegal

business dealings with Iran.[30] The fall-out reached the United States as some transactions were alleged to

have been part of theIran-Contra scandal.

A controversy over Israeli-Iranian business links erupted in mid-2011. Israeli company Ofer Brothers

Group was subject to U.S. sanctions after it was revealed that it sold ships to Iran via a third party, and that its

ships also docked at Iranian ports.[31]

Ynet reported that trade between Israel and Iran totals tens of millions of dollars a year. Much of this trade is

conducted through a third country. Israel supplies Iran with fertilizer, pipes, and hormones for food; Iran,

meanwhile, provides Israel with cashews and marble.[32]

[edit]Military cooperation

[edit]Pre-revolution

Israel was involved in the arming of Iran during the Pahlavi dynasty:
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Project "Flower" Tzur (see also Project Flower), a joint collaboration between Iran and Israel, aimed to

develop a "state-of-the-art sea-to-sea missile, an advanced version of the U.S. Harpoon missile, with a

range of 200 kilometers." (See: Ronen Bergman, "5 billion Reasons to Talk to Iran,"Haaretz(Tel Aviv), 19

March 1999; in "Israel's Outstanding Debt to Iran Viewed," FBIS Document FTS19990319001273, 19

March 1999.

Israeli Defense Minister General Ezer Weizmann and Iranian Vice Minister of War General Hasan

Toufanian discussed the co-production of Israel's Jericho-2 missile, code named Project Flower.(See:

"Minutes from Meeting Held in Tel Aviv between H. E. General M. Dayan, Foreign Minister of Israel, and

H.E. General H. Toufanian, Vice Minister of War, Imperial Government of Iran," Top Secret Minutes from

Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 18 July 1977, in Digital National Security Archive)

[edit]Khomeini era

Main article: Israeli support for Iran during the IranIraq war

The Observerestimated that Israel's arms sales to Iran during theIran-Iraq wartotalled US$ 500 million

annually [5], andTime Magazinereported that throughout 1981 and 1982, "the Israelis reportedly set up Swiss

bank accounts to handle the financial end of the deals."[6][33]

According to the report of the U.S. Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affairissued in

November 1987, "the sale of U.S. arms to Iran through Israel began in the summer of 1985, after receiving the

approval of President Reagan."[7] These sales included "2,008TOWmissiles and 235 parts kits for Hawk

missiles had been sent to Iran via Israel." Further shipments of up to US$2 billion of American weapons from

Israel to Iran consisting of 18 F-4 fighter-bombers, 46 Skyhawk fighter-bombers, and nearly 4,000 missiles

were foiled by the U.S. Department of Justice, and "unverified reports alleged that Israel agreed to sell Iran

Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, radar equipment, mortar and machinegun ammunition, field telephones, M-60

tank engines and artillery shells, and spare parts for C-130 transport planes."[8][9]

Israeli arms deals to Iran continued after the Iran-Iraq war, although sporadically and

unofficially. [10][11][12][13][14]

[edit]Iranian Funding of Hamas and Hezbollah
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A muralin Tehran,Iran. The mural depicts the emblem of Lebanon's Hezbollah, and quotes the founder of The Islamic

Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, saying: "Israel must be destroyed."

Iran supplies political support and weapons to Hamas,[34] an organization committed to the destruction of Israel

by Jihad[35] According to Mahmoud Abbas,President of the Palestinian National Authority, "Hamas is funded by

Iran. It claims it is financed by donations, but the donations are nothing like what it receives from Iran. [36][37]

Iran has also supplied another enemy of Israel, the militant organization Hezbollahwith substantial amounts of

financial, training, weapons, explosives, political, diplomatic, and organizational aid while

persuading Hezbollah to take an action against Israel.[38][39][40]Hezbollah's 1985 manifesto listed its four main

goals as "Israel's final departure from Lebanon as a prelude to its final obliteration"[41]According to reports

released in February 2010, Hezbollah received $400 million dollars from Iran.[39]

[edit]Iranian nuclear program[edit]Israeli fears

The nuclear program of Iran with its potential to develop nuclear weapons, together with the anti-Israel rhetoric

of the President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and his demand for "the regime occupying Jerusalem" to "vanish

from the page of time", has led some Israelis to fear an eventual attack from Iran.[42]

[edit]Israel threatening Iran

In November 2003 a Scottish newspaper claimed that Israel"warned that it is prepared to take unilateral

military action against Iran if the international community fails to stop any development of nuclear weapons atthe country's atomic energy facilities".[43]It cited Israeli defence ministerShaul Mofaz stating, "under no

circumstances would Israel be able to tolerate nuclear weapons in Iranian possession". In December 2005, a

British newspaper claimed that the Israelimilitary had been ordered by then Israeli Prime MinisterAriel

Sharon to plan for possible strikes on uranium enrichmentsites inIran in March 2006, based on Israeli

intelligence estimates that Iran would be able to build nuclear weapons in two to four years. It was claimed that

the special forces command was in the highest stage of readiness for an attack (state G) in December of the

following year. Ariel Sharon reportedly said, "Israel - and not only Israel - cannot accept a nuclear Iran. We

have the ability to deal with this and we're making all the necessary preparations to be ready for such a

situation."[44] Israeli military Chief of Staff, Dan Halutz, was quoted as responding to the question of how far

Israel was ready to go to stop Iran's nuclear energy program with the statement "Two thousand kilometers".

[45] Seymour Hersh says U.S. Department of Defensecivilians led by Douglas Feith have been working with

Israeli planners and consultants to develop and refine potential nuclear, chemical-weapons, and missile targets

inside Iran.[46]
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On 8 May 2006, Israeli Vice PremierShimon Peres said in an interview withReuters that "the president of Iran

should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map," Army Radio reported.[47]Peres, a Nobel Peace Prize

laureate, drew unusually stiff criticism from an analyst on Israel's state television, Yoav Limor, for talking of

destroying another country.[48]

In May 2006, IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz stated that Irans nuclear facilities can be destroyed, hinting at a

possible plan to do just that.[49]

Shabtai Shavit, a former chief of the Mossad, said Iranian atomic facilities could be destroyed within a year, but

has not ruled out going that direction. Isaac Ben-Israel, a former general of the Israeli Air Force, said an attack

could be carried out at any time but only as a last resort.[50]Iran'sShahab-3 missile exercises were conducted

in early July demonstrating that Israel was within reach.

According to the New York Times, Israel sought help from the United States for a military attack against Iran.

[51]

Israel reportedly asked for bunker-busting bombs for an attack on Iran's main nuclear complex and forpermission to fly over Iraq to reach Iran's major nuclear complex at Natanz. The Bush administration rejected

the requests. According to the article, White House officials never conclusively determined whether Israel had

decided to go ahead with the strike before the United States protested, or whether Prime Minister Ehud Olmert

of Israel was trying to goad the White House into more decisive action before President Bush left office.[51]

On 27 July 2009, Israels Defence MinisterEhud Barak during a press conference withRobert Gates, the US

Defense Secretary, in Jerusalem, "...warnedIran that a military strike on its nuclear facilities was still an option.

We clearly believe that no option should be removed from the table. This is our policy. We mean it. We

recommend to others to take the same position but we cannot dictate it to anyone.[52]The same day, Isarel's

Ambassador to US, Gabriela Shalev, during a special UN Security Councilsession held to discuss the situation

in the Middle East, called Iran the "biggest supporter of terrorism. The Islamic Republic'snuclearprogram and

its support of terrorism pose a threat to the entire Middle East."[53]

Recently retired Mossad chiefMeir Dagan has called a possible Israeli strike against Iranian nuclear facilities

"the stupidest thing I have ever heard". A comment supported by two other former Mossad chiefs, but

condemned by members of the current cabinet.[54]

[edit]Speculations

On May 26, 2006, Russian Defense MinisterSergei Ivanov reiterated Moscow's commitment to supply Iran with

sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles. However Lockheed Martin Executive Vice President of F-35 Program

Integration Tom Burbage has indicated that once Israel has the F-35 it need not fear the S-300.[55]

In June 2008, Israel conducted a majormilitary exercise that American officials speculated might be training for

a bombing attack on Iran. A senior Pentagon official said one of the goals of the exercise was to send a clear

message to the United States and other countries that Israel was prepared to act militarily: They wanted us to
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know, they wanted the Europeans to know, and they wanted the Iranians to know, the Pentagon official said.

Theres a lot of signaling going on at different levels.[56]

The Bush administration did agree to sell a thousand GBU-39 standoff bunker penetrating bombs to Israel, but

a strike against Natanz would require hundreds of these bombs.[57]

On April 1, Army General David Petraeus said the Israeli government may ultimately see itself so threatened

by the prospect of an Iranian nuclear weapon that it would take preemptive military action to derail or delay it.[58]

Top Iranian general referring to the case ofMordechai Vanunu, former Israel's nuclear technician, who

revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986, stated that "Israel's nuclear

arsenal possess an immediate threat to Middle East".[59]

On 17 September 2009, Ze'ev Elkin said that the delivery by Russia of S-300 missiles may prompt Israel to

strike Iran.[60]However in June 2010 Russia voted for UN sanctions to prevent the S-300 missile sale.[61]

The global price of oil is likely to increase suddenly and dramatically should Israel strike Iran's nuclear facilities.

It is just as likely, although not to the same degree, that the price of oil will increase if Iran successfully

develops nuclear weapons.[62]

[edit]Iran responding to Israel threats

Iran's foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki declared that Israel was not capable of an attack and still

recovering from the 2006 war in Lebanon.[50] The Iranian Chief of the Revolutionary Guards,Mohammad Ali

Jafarisaid Israel was within the reach of Iranian missiles and Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz, cutting off

two-fifths of the global oil supply.[50]Iran has the capability to close the Strait of Hormuz or impede traffic for a

month or more, and any U.S. attempts to reopen it could escalate the conflict. [63]

According toMohammad Ali Jafari "If Israel military agresses against sovereigntyandindependenceof

the Islamic Republic of Iran, the country will use its right, established underinternational lawwhich inevocably

establishes the right to defend its sovereignty by all lawful means available to it. Moreover, if such aggression is

penetrated, the United Nations will be obliged to repulse such an aggression towards its sovereign member".[59]

On 7 February 2010, Iran's supreme leader AyatollahAli Khameneisaid the destruction of Israel was assured.

According to theTeheran Times, Khamenei told Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaderRamadan Abdullah Shallah,

"Israel is going downhill toward decline and fall and God willing its obliteration is certain". Khamenei went on to

call Israel "a symbol of atrocity, viciousness, and ugliness," and said the Wests "support for the Zionist regime

is ineffective."[64]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejads chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, said that if Israel attacked

Iran it would be destroyed within a week. [65]

[edit]Embassy bombing plot
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On 11 October 2011 the United States claimed to have foiled a plot by the Iranian government that included

bombing the Israeli (as well as Saudi) embassies in Washington, DC and Buenos Aires, which could be viewed

as an act of war against the parties involved.[66]

[edit]See also

International recognition of Israel

History of the Jews in Iran

International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust

International Holocaust Cartoon Competition

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Israel

Persian Jews

Iranian Israelis

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14.^ Arabs Still Want to Destroy Israelby Daniel Pipes,Wall Street Journal, 18 January 2002

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55.^ Can the U.S. F-35 fighter destroy Russia's S-300 systems?

56.^ "U.S. Says Israeli Exercise Seemed Directed at Iran".New York Times. 2008-06-20. Retrieved 2008-06-23.

57.^ Israel slated to buy US smart bombs

58.^ http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a6m8Gjlv2Njs&refer=home

59.^abhttp://www.presstv.ir/sections.aspx?section=351020201%7C PressTv Iran. 27 July 2009.

60.^ Continue nuclear program and supply of S-300 from Russia can bring the Israeli attack on Iran

61.^ Russia now says Iran sanctions ban S-300 missiles

62.^ Lord of War - Iran's nuclear program and the price of oil

63.^ http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/18409/closing_time.htmlClosing Time: Assessing the

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