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>>rntn+(OP)
It is interesting how Iran is the only country that is, through its proxies, getting kinetic against Israel. The Iranian proxies in Yemen and Lebanon have been firing missiles at Israel for a month while the Iranian proxies in Iraq and Syria are starting to assemble in Syria for what might be a land invasion of Israel.

This has given Iran an unprecedented level of popularity and credibility in the Islamic world.

How did Iran-Israel relations even get this bad to begin with?

>>0xDEF+Q6
>How did Iran-Israel relations even get this bad to begin with?

The 1979 Iranian Revolution installed the Islamic Republic and repudiated the previous government's relatively amicable diplomatic relations with Israel.

>>eli_go+oa
Ironic since this revolution was fomented by the CIA.

The CIA deposed the elected leader (people forget Iran was a secular democracy), and put in a puppet Shaw, which then the population revolted against.

So we are friendly with Israel, but only up to a point, if they get in the way, and are hit with some 'splatter', so be it.

>>Frustr+ob
Who is the "we"? Israeli lobby influence appears to be steadily increasing.