#IsraelIranConflict The Iranian-Israeli proxy war is a conflict primarily based on the political struggle between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the State of Israel due to the fact that since the rise of the theocratic republicanism of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Iran, it has become an enemy of the Jewish state over the Palestinian issue. Israel has also sought to weaken and eliminate regional political allies such as Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Palestine. Iran has supported the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad in the civil war.