Warning of ‘unintended consequences, especially for Iran’
The confrontation between Israel and Iran could have “unintended consequences, especially for Iran”, an Iranian-Israeli academic has told Sky News.
Meir Javedanfar, who lectures at Reichman University in Tel Aviv, said: “I’m from Iran, and I have to tell you: this war that the Iranian regime is waging against Israel is against the interests of Iranians.”
Mr Javedanfar added: “It’s based on ideology and emotions more than it is based on logic.
“This is what makes this confrontation dangerous, and this is why it could have unintended consequences, especially for Iran.”
Mr Javedanfar said Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, is “suffering simultaneously from an inferiority and superiority complex”.
He added: “He has a superiority complex because, for the first time in the post-revolution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, his country and his regime finds itself an alliance with superpowers.
“Those superpowers are China and Russia.
“This has had a major boost on his sense of self-confidence.”
However, Mr Javedanfar said the Islamic Republic is “feeling an inferiority complex because the October 7th attack by Hamas” was “supposed to be a blow against the state of Israel” and was “supposed to undermine Israel in an unprecedented manner”.
But it has “somehow turned into a saga that has ended up hurting and killing Iranian regime officials in Syria and elsewhere”, he added.
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