Money Flow Journal

From Allies to Adversaries: The Tangled History of Israel, Iran, and the US The direct military conflict that erupted between Israel and Iran in June 2025, ultimately drawing in the United States, was not a sudden crisis. It was the explosive culmination of a decades-long transformation—a journey from close cooperation and strategic alliance to ideological rivalry and, finally, open warfare. To understand the roots of this conflict, one must look back to a very different era, a time when Israel and Iran were improbable partners. Former Allies: A Strategic Partnership Forged by Common Threats (1948–1979) Before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the relationship between Israel and Iran was remarkably close. Following Israel's establishment in 1948, Iran became the second Muslim-majority nation, after Turkey, to recognize its sovereignty. At the time, both nations faced a common threat from the rise of pan-Arab nationalism, which pushed them into an unofficial strategic alliance. Under the...