Iran’s opposition to a two-state solution has made it harder for it to build diplomatic alliances in the region – its absence from last week’s conference is a case in point
The historian and author Arash Azizi denied that the backdrop of possible imminent military conflict between Israel and Iran made it a totally inappropriate moment for such a debate to be held
Azizi said,
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“It is a debate between those that want Iran to be an incubator of revolutionary Islamist anti-Zionism and those that support a pragmatic foreign policy based on the national interest”
“Iran is going through a transition”
“moment of truth”
The supreme leader is 85 and Khomenei’s strategy of “no war no peace” has not worked
Power is being passed on to a new generation. Iran cannot go on, in these full-out crises It should not be Iran’s business to want to destroy Israel and then say it does not want war “This is a moment of truth”
Azizi added,
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“if there was a Palestinian-Israeli agreement, Iran would not be able to do much”
Azizi noted, the former Iranian foreign minister Mohammed Javad Zarif recently said,
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"Iranians were tired of a government “that is trying to be more pro-Palestinian than the Palestinians themselves”
The possible flexibility in the Iranian position started under the last president, Ebrahim Raisi
In December, for instance, Iran backed a Jordanian-tabled resolution at the UN general assembly – albeit with a heavy reservation – that declared a two-state solution was the only way to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
