OPINION: More Than Weapons: The Ideological Affinity Between Iran’s Clerical Establishment and Russia’s Kremlin

Islam

The hostility of the Islamic Republic of Iran toward Israel is not framed in Tehran as a conventional geopolitical dispute. It is deeply rooted in an eschatological interpretation of Shia Islam – within this worldview, Israel is not merely a rival state but a theological provocation: a Jewish sovereign presence on land the Shia Islam regards as an Islamic trust, is historically invalid.

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