“Up until 1979,” noted Cohen, “Israel and Iran had normalized and even warm diplomatic relations. The countries do not share a border and there is no animosity between the nations – there is even a mutual appreciation between the two Middle Eastern cultures and peoples that are thousands of years old.”
“The breaking point in the relationship between the two countries was the Islamic Revolution,” he pointed out. “Since then, Iran’s Ayatollah regime has led aggressive and violent anti-Israel and antisemitic policies. It has funded terrorism, called for the disappearance of the State of Israel, and continuously attempted to obtain weapons of mass destruction that will allow the extremist regime to carry out its plan of the ethnic cleansing of Jews from the Middle East. The Jewish people, especially in light of past experiences, must take these threats seriously”.
The Foreign Minister added, “The fingerprints of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard are all over the Middle East as well as Asia, Europe, and America. Its terrorism reaches Lebanon through Hezbollah, Gaza through the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Syria, Yemen, and more.” READ MORE
