https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east...y-israel/0000017f-ea1d-d4a6-af7f-fedfaedd0000
https://www.stimson.org/2023/what-drives-israel-iran-hostility-how-might-it-be-resolved/
Iran’s Islamists consider Israel an illegitimate state that has usurped Muslim/Arab lands and driven the Palestinians from their homeland. They believe Israel should be replaced by a non-denominational state in which Muslims and Jews live as equals. Some Iranian officials have expressed this view in terms that Israel has interpreted as threats to destroy it, like when former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke of wiping Israel off the pages of history, quoting Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the late leader of the 1979 revolution. However, this is not the only perspective within Iranian polity. Moderate and reformist elements accept Israel’s reality and its right to exist, alongside a Palestinian state
https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/expressions/what-does-iran-really-want
Iran’s support for the Palestinian cause and its rhetoric of an ongoing war against Israel should be read in this context. If it was up to the Iranian people, a large majority would be in favor of normalizing relations with the Jewish state. And if seen from a sectarian perspective, Jerusalem is mostly a holy site of Sunni heritage and is not central to the Shia tradition. It is true that Ayatollah Khomeini was an early champion of the Palestinian cause, but in retrospect, that stance seems to have served more as an alibi to hide the narrowly Shia nature of his project. Iran’s anti-Israeli militancy serves multiple purposes, the most important of which is to argue that the Jewish state’s military power and behavior justify Iran’s own military and nuclear program. As to Iran’s arming of the Sunni movement Hamas in Gaza, it serves to maintain an indirect presence on Israel’s southwestern flank while driving a wedge into the Sunni front of Arab countries.
It feels like, one speech, several decades ago is being held onto and misinterpreted as cause justify in order to promote certain policies and geopolitics.
I see it more, they want a two state solution, rather than to destroy every Israeli.
You're reading from one person's opinion piece which offers scant evidence to support her assertions. Where is the evidence that an Iranian State that does not recognise Israel and calls it "occupied Palestine" wants a two-state solution?
We have Khomeini on record calling for the annihilation of Israel (promising it actually). following this, a bill has been submitted to the Iranian parliament to have Iran actively pursue the destruction of Israel as a formal and open State policy which the government will be required to achieve within a prescribed number of years. Granted, this bill has not yet been passed into law but it is strongly reflective of the state of mind of the Iranian establishment that such an abhorrent bill could be formulated and not tossed out immediately, with its murderous formulators punished. Of course, there may be many liberals among the ordinary Iranian people but this is not about the people.
This is of course, in addition to the fact that Iran has relentlessly pursued a shadow war against Israel for years, including arming every known opponent of Israel. When you add evidence of a hostile mind and a history of hostile acts together, it is very difficult to conclude that there is some goodwill there.
So can you point me to any official statement, act, overture or anything at all that shows Iran as being willing to countenance Israel as a State?