Karim Sadjadpour, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “used to believe that Iran would be capable of altering its approach towards Israel in the context of a broader US-Iran accommodation.
“I no longer believe this to be the case.”
Sadjapour rightly sees Iranian hatred of Israel, not as a trumped up ploy in a strategic balancing act, but as the most enduring tenet of the Khomeini revolution.