REMINDER: Iran Hasn’t Changed since 1979. Why Do We Pretend It Has? |
I was about to have a Golani whiskey with a cigar on my balcony, watching the Mediterranean sky turn gold over Tel Aviv, when Iran reminded me — again — that sunsets in Israel are never just sunsets.
For a brief moment, life felt ordinary. In Israel, that may be the rarest luxury of all.
From my vantage point as a Jewish-American-Israeli, Iran’s agenda has not shifted in more than four decades. The regime in Tehran has been unwavering — in ideology, in rhetoric, and in action. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, it has defined itself through hostility toward Israel, toward the United States, and toward Jews everywhere.
This is not exaggeration. It is doctrine backed by decades of violence.
The slogans “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” were never symbolic. They became pillars of state identity. And the regime has enforced them across continents.
Through its proxy Hezbollah, Iran enabled the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 American servicemen. The same Hezbollah — financed, armed, and trained by Tehran — carried out the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos........