For years, Iran has openly threatened Israel’s destruction – whether through the speeches of the ayatollahs or by funding terrorism across the Middle East. Yet many still ask:

• Why? Why does a country with no shared border with Israel make its annihilation a strategic goal?
• Why does Iran see Israel not only as an enemy but also as a threat to its identity?

The Jewish paradox in Iran’s Islamic worldview.

Iran’s obsession with destroying Israel is a complex phenomenon rooted in religious, ideological, political, and historical factors. The Islamic Republic of Iran is built on a Shiite revolutionary worldview, led by the ayatollahs and the supreme leader. This ideology positions itself as the vanguard of a “global Islamic revolution” tasked with bringing justice, as they define it, to the entire Islamic world and beyond. In their eyes, Israel is not merely a “Zionist occupying entity” but a symbol of apostasy on Earth, Western colonialism in the Middle East, and the influence...

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