Kriszta Satori' #Israel describes #Iran as the world’s greatest sponsor of terrorism; for Iran, hostility towards Israel, what it calls the “Zionist regime” is a core tenet of its 1979 revolutionary doctrine.
The risk of confrontation had risen with every month the #Gaza war has ground on.
Iran has long prided itself on playing a long game, on exercising “strategic patience".
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has avoided all-out war ever since he came to power in 1989.'
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