While Tehran paints a dichotomy between Islam and the West and the intractable conflict that must ensue as a result, it is all too willing to accept help, support and succour from the West Opinion | DrTalAbdulrazaq
Yet here they are, back on the “death to America” bandwagon, attempting to undermine a US foreign policy priority in Ukraine, and getting away with it scot-free.
There is a reason why these groups — all tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — always seem to literally get away with murder and mayhem. The compartmentalisation of issues and interests is part of what makes international politics and the global game of power so complex — states will often be found collaborating with each other in certain circumstances even as they clash with each other elsewhere. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the relationship between the United States and Iran who, quite literally, make the best of enemies.
While no one in the Islamic Republic would deny that the US supported the Iranian Pahlavi dynasty until it was overthrown by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979, no one in today’s Iranian regime will admit to colluding with both the US and Israel in the infamousduring the 1980s in order to undermine Iraq, then under Saddam Hussein and the Baathist regime.
The reason why is obvious – it undermines Iran’s carefully laid narrative of “resistance”. Tehran’s spiel is built on chants of “death to America”, “death to Israel”, and claiming to be the vanguard of the so-called “The reality is far different, with Iran happily accepting covert Israeli military and diplomatic support during the
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