How does it end?A bond that has endured for millennia

The lions of Zion and Persia rise up

Across Iran and the diaspora, voices rise in solidarity, making clear the Iranian people are not the regime.

Iranian demonstrators holding pre-revolution Iranian flags and Israeli flags outside the Embassy of Iran in London in June, 2025. Photo: Vuk Valcic/Alamy Live News/Jewish News UK
Iranian demonstrators holding pre-revolution Iranian flags and Israeli flags outside the Embassy of Iran in London in June, 2025. Photo: Vuk Valcic/Alamy Live News/Jewish News UK

It feels as though we are living in biblical times: a moment so vast, so historic, that it is difficult to fully grasp. We are witnessing one of the most significant turning points for the Jewish people since the founding of the State of Israel.

If someone had told me just two years ago that millions of Iranians would one day march in the streets waving Israeli flags and declaring their love for Israel, I would have dismissed it as fantasy.

For decades, we were taught that the Iranian people were our sworn enemies – the same people who chanted “Death to Israel,” whose regime armed and financed Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, and whose leaders spread antisemitic hatred across the globe.

The same regime that unleashed its proxy armies on Israel on October 7, 2023 in an attempt to carry out a second genocide against the Jewish people.

And yet here we are, in March 2026.

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