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Trade ties grew, and soon Iran became a major oil provider for Israel, with the two establishing a pipeline aimed at sending Iranian oil to Israel and then Europe. Israel established a de facto embassy in Tehran, and eventually the two exchanged ambassadors in the 1970s. The coup reinstated the shah who became a staunch ally of the West in the region. Things dramatically shifted when Mosaddegh’s government was overthrown in a coup organised by the intelligence services of the United Kingdom and the United States in 1953. Zionism emerged as a political ideology in the late 19th century that called for the creation of a homeland for Jews who faced atrocities in Europe. But for Mosaddegh, the main aim was to gain support from surrounding Arab states to combat British control over the oil industry,” Kvindesland told Al Jazeera. There was Navvab Safavi, one of the most famous characters who propagated strongly against Zionism and the establishment of Israel. “There was some anti-Zionist mobilisation inside Iran. Its ties with Israel were “collateral damage”, he says. Mosaddegh severed ties with Israel, which he saw as serving Western interests in the region.Īccording to Kvindesland, Mosaddegh and his National Front political organisation’s efforts to nationalise oil, kick out the British colonial power and weaken the monarchy were the main story for Iran at the time. Things changed after Mohammad Mosaddegh became Iran’s prime minister in 1951 when he spearheaded the nationalisation of the country’s oil industry, which was monopolised by Britain. This also included Ethiopia, but Iran and Turkey were by far the most successful approaches,” Kvindesland said. “To end its isolation in the Middle East, Israel’s Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion pursued relations with non-Arab states at the ‘edges’ of the Middle East, in what would later become known as the periphery doctrine. Kvindesland said Tehran’s move was mainly to manage Iranian assets in Palestine as about 2,000 Iranians lived there and had their properties confiscated by the Israeli army during the war.īut it also happened in the context of Israel’s so-called “periphery doctrine”. Palestinians call their forced displacement and dispossession the Nakba, Arabic for catastrophe. Leading up to Israel’s establishment in 1948, more than 700,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from their homes by Zionist militias.

“That was Iran’s compromise to try to maintain positive relations with a pro-Zionist West and the Zionist movement itself, and also with its Arab and Muslim neighbouring countries.”īut two years after Israel managed to capture more territory than the UN had approved following the start of the first Arab-Israeli War in 1948, Iran – then under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the second Pahlavi king or shah – became the second Muslim-majority nation after Turkey to officially recognise Israel. “Iran, alongside India and Yugoslavia, came up with an alternative plan, a federative solution which was about keeping Palestine as one state with one parliament but divided into Arab and Jewish cantons,” University of Oxford historian Eirik Kvindesland told Al Jazeera. It was one of three to vote against the UN’s partition plan for Palestine, centred on concerns that it would escalate violence in the region for generations to come.

Iran was one of the 11 members of the special United Nations committee that was formed in 1947 to devise a solution for Palestine after the British control of the territory ended. Iran was, in fact, the second Muslim-majority country to recognise Israel after it was founded in 1948. Under the Pahlavi dynasty, which ruled from 1925 until it was overthrown in the 1979 revolution, ties between Iran and Israel were anything but hostile. How did relations between modern-day Iran and Israel begin? Here’s a quick look at the history of relations between Iran and Israel, and where things stand now. Keep reading list of 4 items list 1 of 4 US says Iran ‘actively facilitating’ attacks on bases in Middle East list 2 of 4 Iran urges Muslim countries to sanction Israel after Gaza hospital strike list 3 of 4 Iran’s Khamenei demands Israel stop bombardment of Gaza list 4 of 4 Iran warns of ‘preemptive’ action against Israel amid Gaza war end of list

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