Iran's refusal to recognize the state of Israel is baseless procedurally. Their basis for a stand of that sort is purely religious. Arrogant Islamists who hardly even recognize the rights of existence of anyone that doesn't bow to their religion. There's a whole world full of us out here that don't, but to stay connected financially, they've ceded to us. That Israel has put a nation together which not only is non-muslim, but is mostly if not all jewish is nothing more than a thorn in the pride of these (people). Let's tend that thorn and have it grow larger, and with a sharper point............