Normalization of Relations Between Israel and Arab States: An Iranian Perspective

The roots of conflict between IranIran and the Arab countriesArab countries can be traced back in the centuries old Arab and Ajam rivalry. The ongoing differences between IranIran and the major Arab countriesArab countries can, therefore, be considered as a new incarnation of the competition between the Arabs and Ajams for the hegemony of West AsiaWest Asia, but now with an additional factor of Islamic revolutionary ideology. However, emergence of IsraelIsrael as a Jewish stateJewish State in 1948 gave a new direction to this rivalry as Arabs opposed and confronted with the idea of IsraelIsrael but IranIran under Reza Shah PahlaviPahlavi, Reza Shah, gradually established ties with the Jewish stateJewish State.