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Iran and Israel Conflict
Nation-states of Iran and Israel have been involved in conflict with one another since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, which saw the former Shah of Iran be deposed by an Islamic revolutionary movement that has ruled Iran since that time.
Israel and Iran, since the early 1980s, have been engaged in proxy warfare against one another, and both sides went to great lengths to ensure this proxy war remains a proxy war and does not become an open war between Iran and Israel.
If Iran and Israel went to total war where both states demanded the unconditional surrender of the other, the whole region of the Middle East would go up in smoke, and the conflict would rapidly spread into neighbouring Syria and Iraq.
There is also an international dimension to the issue because 27% of the world’s oil production comes from the Middle East.
A significant conflict within the region could potentially see either government deploy tactical nukes, which means the oil may go offline.
There is also within Islam the culture of all Muslims being connected, and this could create political instability in other nations around the world that have sizeable Muslim minorities.
This is already happening in Western capitals such as London due to the Hamas terrorist organisation based in Gaza, which launched a…
