Iran and Israel had been engaged in years-long shadow war, attacking each other's assets without taking responsibility. Those attacks had ratcheted up considerably during the war in Gaza, sparked by the Palestinian group Hamas's assault on a nearby Israeli community. In October of 2023, we remember this. The two countries were allied until 1979, with the Islamic Revolution in Iran bringing in a regime that opposing the existence of Israel as a key Part of its ideology. Iran did not recognise Israel's right to exist and seeks its eradication. The country's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khomeini, has called Israel a cancerous tumour that will undoubtedly be uprooted and destroyed. Israel believes that Iran poses a central threat to threat as as evidenced by Tehran's rhetoric, which builds up proxy forces in regions including the Lebanese Shia militant group, Hezbollah, that are sworn to Israel's destruction. Israel accuses Iran of secretly trying to develop nuclear weapons. You're going to hear some statements from Danny Danon, the ambassador to the United Nations
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