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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Reformist clerics imply Iran should back two-state solution for Israel and Palestine

Land being farmed with buildings and smoke seen in the distance.
Smoke from Israeli strikes rises from the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel. Photograph: Tsafrir Abayov/AP

Reformists in Iran have ignited a debate about whether Tehran should be willing to shift from its deeply held opposition to a two-state solution in the Palestinian territories, which would require it to recognise the existence of an Israeli state.

“Death to Zionism” has been a staple of Iranian revolutionary thinking since 1979, and was the position effectively of the Palestine Liberation Organisation until the Oslo accords in the 1990s.

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