{"id":237571,"date":"2026-01-14T13:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/237571\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T13:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:49:07","slug":"why-did-israel-sell-arms-to-the-ayatollahs-iran-its-bitterest-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/237571\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Israel Sell Arms to the Ayatollahs&#8217; Iran, Its Bitterest Enemy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh xb3r6kr x103ahzr\">The Haaretz headline in early 1979 was dramatic: &#8220;Iran expels all Israelis from its territory \u2013 announces it ended relations.&#8221; Another front-page article read: &#8220;Iran&#8217;s revolutionary government announced today a complete severance of diplomatic relations with Israel and issued orders expelling Israelis with diplomatic status still in Iran. &#8230; The government said that &#8216;this step was taken in accordance with the policy of ending any and all ties with Israel.'&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Haaretz headline in early 1979 was dramatic: &#8220;Iran expels all Israelis from its territory \u2013 announces it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[128475,86,85,87,6605,46,6429,21452,43],"class_list":["post-237571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-ariel-sharon","tag-hezbollah","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-israel","tag-israel-arms-exports","tag-israel-iran","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}