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The two countries were allies until the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, which ushered in a regime that has used rival Israel as a key part of its ideology.
Iran does not recognize Israel's right to exist and seeks its eradication.
The country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has previously called Israel a "cancerous tumor" that will "undoubtedly be uprooted and destroyed."
Israel believes that Iran poses an existential threat as evidenced by Tehran's rhetoric, its establishment of proxy forces sworn to Israel's destruction, its financing and arming of Palestinian groups including Hamas and the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hamas, and what it believes to be it is Iran's. covert pursuit of nuclear weapons, although Iran denies seeking to build a nuclear bomb.
Iran wanted to retaliate after the attack on the consulate
Iran says Saturday night's bombing of Israel is a response to an April 1 airstrike on an Iranian consulate building in the Syrian capital Damascus that killed senior Iranian commanders.
Iran blames Israel for the airstrike, which it sees as a violation of its sovereignty. Israel has not said it carried it out, but it is widely assumed that it did.
Thirteen people were killed, including Brig Gen Mohammad Reza Zahedi - a senior commander in the Quds Force, the overseas branch of the Iranian Republican Guard (IRGC). He had been a key figure in Iran's operation to arm the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah.
Who are Iran's allies?
Iran has built a network of allies and proxies in the Middle East that it says are part of an "axis of resistance" that challenges US and Israeli interests in the region. He supports them to varying degrees.
Syria is Iran's most important ally. Iran, along with Russia, helped the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad survive the country's decade-long civil war.
Hezbollah in Lebanon is the most powerful of the armed groups that Iran supports. It has exchanged cross-border fire with Israel almost daily since the war between Israel and Hamas broke out. Tens of thousands of civilians on both sides of the border have been forced to leave their homes.
Iran supports several Shi'ite militias in Iraq, which have attacked US bases in Iraq, Syria and Jordan with missiles. The US retaliated after three of its soldiers were killed at a military post in Jordan. / BBC
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