President Hassan Rouhani speaks in New York City on stabilising the Middle East, September, 2014. Demotix/ Nancy Siesel. All rights reserved.On the surface it appears that no other two political leaders hate each other more than Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel. However, while no love is lost between these two fellows who would want to bring harm to each other’s nation, both have discovered that they badly need each other to cover up the messes they have created in their own respective countries and the region.
In early September 2015, Khamenei told the usual rent-a crowd audience that in 25 years there would be no Zionist regime, meaning Israel. This could not have come at a better moment for Netanyahu who was visiting London amidst enormous demonstrations and petitions demanding his arrest for human rights violations.
In the past Netanyahu had Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the disgraced former Iranian President, who with the full support of Khamenei, would say one foul thing after another about Israel, whenever he needed to divert attentions from pressing internal problems. Ahmadinejad became the “Godsend” fellow who helped the successful elections of Netanyahu and Lieberman in 2009 and then again in 2013, by encouraging Iran to be seen as the “existential threat” to Israel.
