The Arab-Iranian hostility is ancient, entrenched, and so deep-rooted to the extent that it has become genetic. Because Persian Iran will not forgive Arabs for being the reason behind the collapse of the Persian Empire nor will the Zoroastrians forgive the Arabs for the disappearance of their religion and the spread of Islam instead and at its expense. The Persian Zoroastrians will not change their hatred towards our lord Omar Ibn Al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, as he managed the strategic collapse of the Persian Empire (the Sassanid) from Medina, by directing well-organized armies, leading to decisive victories ((like the Battle of Qadisiyah)) (15 AH / 636 AD), and ((the Battle of Nahavand)) (21 AH / 642 AD), thereby ending centuries of Persian rule in Iraq and Persia, incorporating them into the Islamic state with unique military and political genius.
The Persians outwardly embraced Islam out of fear and to avoid paying the jizya. However, they never abandoned fire worship in their hearts and minds. They resorted to the method of "Taqqiya". Taqqiya is an Arabic term from the verb ("yattaqi"), meaning ("to fear"), which means ("fear").
Therefore, there is a historical, genetic hatred by the Persian Zoroastrians towards everything related to Arabism and Islam. In addition to the above history, the unchangeable rule of geography is also added, as the Iraqi poet Ghadir Al-Shammari al-Naqshbandi said:—
What is the way to fend off evil? What are the paths? / The fate of Iraq closely adjoins Persia.
Islam should have refined their souls and called them to meet with the Arabs
starting from their brotherhood in religion. They were supposed to interact kindly with the Arabs devoid of any greed, just as the Arabs have dealt with them in recent history.
Despite all of the above, and despite the existence of premeditated intentions among Iranians against everything Arab, the interest of the Arabs requires safeguarding Iran, and sparing it any harm that could lead to division.
There is no doubt that Iran is considered an enemy to the Arabs, and it has ambitions in Arab territories. It occupies Arabistan, the three Emirati islands ((Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb, and Abu Musa)), controls Iraq, and commits killings, looting, corruption, changes to its Arab identity, and has aspirations in Bahrain, Kuwait, and regions of Saudi Arabia. However, Iran can be considered an enemy with whom confrontation can be postponed and differences managed. The focus should be on the primary and most dangerous enemy, the Zionist entity, the fiercest enemy of the Arabs.
Therefore, I see that if the current American-Zionist escalation reaches its peak, and the situation explodes, and war breaks out, whose primary goal is to overthrow the Iranian regime, and if it happens it will cause significant and severe damage to all Arab countries. If the regime change was through internal Iranian tools, the Arabs would not object, but if the change comes through external factors represented by America and the Zionist enemy, then its consequences for the Arabs will be dire.
The danger lies in that if war broke out, and the Iranian governing regime fell, Iran the country would "fragment" into several small states. And this is the covert Zionist goal.
Iran consists of various ethnicities, minorities, religions, sects, origins, and roots so diverse and contradictory that they have not merged into a cohesive and unified Iranian society.
I will mention some details about the components of the Iranian people succinctly:— For example: North-western Iran is populated by ethnic Azeris (Turks) amounting to about 10 million (16%) of the Iranian population, adjacent to that region lies the Kurdish area with about 8 million Sunni Kurds, the Khuzestan area is an Arab region with a population not less than 6 million Arabs, it is the oil-rich area, and south-west lies the regions of Balochistan, Eastern Khorasan, Luristan, Gilan, Turkmenistan, Armenians, Assyrians, and those of Persian descent who make up more than 52% of the population. All the major components have liberation tendencies, even having organizations such as Azeris, Kurds, Arabs, and Baloch. Hence, if the Iranian regime falls, Iran will be divided into at least four or five small states.
If these nationalities succeeded in separating from Iran and it fragmented, the ground would be fertile and suitable for the Zionist enemy to penetrate these small states, control them, buy their allegiances, and add them to the Zionist camp, thus tightening its noose on the Arab countries. The contagion of fragmentation and allegiance to the Zionist enemy would then spread to Pakistan, causing a major calamity for all Arabs.
Thus, the persistence of Iran as a cohesive state resistant to division serves a major strategic Arab interest.
Whereas, the Arab interest lies in exhausting and weakening Iran to preoccupy it with itself, and distract it from implementing its ambitions in some Arab countries.
Indicators—despite their constant fluctuations and changes—suggest that a war is not likely in the foreseeable future.
May God thwart the entity's schemes to divide Iran, to limit the Zionist infiltration.
