ISRAEL: IRAN'S NATURAL ALLY? Amir Taheri suggests in an article for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs about Iran's ambitions that:

• Iran's national interest would be to regard Israel as a strategic ally and partner because Iran does not want a Middle East which is entirely Arab. But the Islamic Republic wants to lead the Muslim world, create an Islamic superpower, and save mankind from a Judeo-Christian conspiracy.
  
  
• Jerusalem contains the al-Aqsa Mosque, but it is a Sunni mosque. Iranians are Shi'ites and cannot pray there because their prayers would not be accepted. So liberating Jerusalem is a totally useless project from an Iranian religious perspective.

Let's hope the Iranian leadership makes a habit of visiting the JCPA website.

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